Nonhuman Humanitarians – Animal Interventions in Global Politics Meiches

Nonhuman HumanitariansAnimal Interventions in Global Politics\nAuthor(s): Benjamin Meiches\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9781517913847, 978-1517913847\nSynopsis\nExamining the appearance of nonhuman animals laboring alongside humans in humanitarian operations\n\nBoth critical and mainstream scholarly work on humanitarianism have largely been framed from anthropocentric perspectives highlighting humanity as the rationale for providing care to others. In Nonhuman Humanitarians, Benjamin Meiches explores the role of animals laboring alongside humans in humanitarian operations, generating new ethical possibilities of care in humanitarian practice.\n\nNonhuman Humanitarians examines how these animals not only improve specific practices of humanitarian aid but have started to transform the basic tenets of humanitarianism. Analyzing case studies of mine-clearance dogs, milk-producing cows and goat.