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Because acknowledging that humanitarian aid is only possible when it coincides with the interests of the “powers that be” does not have to mean giving way to political forces.
Michael Neuman • Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience
Cass R. Sunstein • Opinion | The Nobel Prize-Winning Professor Who Liked to Collaborate With His Adversaries
“The division of the world into intrinsically opposed hordes and swarms attacks the very notion of shared humanity. I refuse to indulge in the despair that accepts the logic of the enemies of mankind."
resistance reveals preference and affinity, and fear and suspicion, political sympathy and personal antipathy, and the way these might come or go together. This is resistance as conflicted engagement
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It should be recognized that a defining feature of a synergistic society is that participation in it is voluntary. If people do not choose to engage in a given cooperative activity, the implication is that they do not perceive that activity to be helpful, either for themselves or for others. Efforts to promote social cooperation within a
... See moreNathaniel Branden • Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect
Bishop does claim that relational art can have strong political power, and can produce democratic relations, but for her this happens when it cultivates situations that are not socially benign and consensual, like those Bourriaud tends to focus on and potentially to celebrate. For Bishop, democracy is enacted through art practices that cultivate
... See moreJen Harvie • Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Performance Interventions)
tacitly acknowledge the bankruptcy of their own anti-government, anti-regulation rhetoric. If, on the other hand, they fought a rearguard action, if they generated controversy and threw sand in the gears, they at least had a chance to energize their base and slow me and the Democrats down at a time when the country was sure to be impatient.