Emotions: History, Culture, Society
Special Issue on Humanitarianism
Published June 2025.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Front Matter i-v.
Articles
Introduction: Towards a History of Humanitarian Experiences. Dolores Martin-Moruno and Valérie Gorin. 1-13.
Painting Humanitarian Experiences at Sea: The Raft of the Medusa. Dolores Martín-Moruno. 15-36.
Sweet Sensation: Humanity, Experimental Medicine and the Philadelphia Animal Cruelty Trial of 1914. Rob Boddice. 37-57.
Patriotic Humanitarianism: Toward an Emotional and Experiential History of Children’s Actions During the First World War. Stephanie Olsen. 58-78.
Humanitarianism’s Volunteers: The Italian Lay Missionary Movement in the Long 1960s. Silvia Salvatici. 19-101.
Disobedient Humanitarianism: Moral Experiences of Aid in the Arabian Desert (1962–1970). Valérie Gorin. 102-122.
Moving On? The Act of Remembering Humanitarian Aid and the Shaping of Normative Experiences. Bertrand Taithe. 123-146.
Forum
The Spectral Imagination; or, Using the Past to Re-imagine the Future. Charlotte-Rose Millar. 148-154. (This should have been included in Volume 8.2).
Obituaries
Emma Hutchinson (1980–2024). Dolores Martín-Moruno. 155-156.
Book Reviews
Approaches to Emotion in Middle English Literature by Carolyne Larrington (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024). Stephanie Trigg. 157-159.
The Renaissance of Feeling: Erasmus and Emotion by Kirk Essary (London: Bloomsbury, 2024). Mark Vessey. 160-162.
Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster (Basingstoke: Pan Macmillan, 2024). Jane Vaughan. 163-165.
Passionate Politics: Democracy, Development and India’s 2019 General Election edited by Indrajit Roy (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023) . Dhritiman Chakraborty. 166-168.
Collective Emotions and Political Violence: Narratives of Islamist Organisations in Western Europe by Maéva Clément (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023). Dhrubaraj Adhikari. 169-171.
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