ANT358H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Corporate Social Responsibility, Commodity Fetishism, Neoliberalism
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5% penalty if you don"t attach part 1! Use one article from class to critically reflect in part 1. Must have thesis statement (driven by 1 main article) Graded for: quality of writing, ability to incorporate anthropological perspectives and, your reflexivity (ex. pause on the obvious) ideas. Why did you choose the organization you did. Use of first person should be used. Humanitarianism may relieve individual suffering but it can create and/or reproduce social inequalities: does not address the political or social determinants of, the politics of compassion benefit some while excluding heal inequalities. Not a universal humanity but a politics of life . Creates pure victims who are objects of charity not law: people suffering become disconnected from those who. Humanitarian logic is filling space of political action: human rights becomes lost in how we talk about social others created it suffering.