Stealing the Pain of Others: Reflections on Canadian Humanitarian Responses

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes I would like to thank Gada Mahrouse, Carmela Murdocca, and Leslie Thielen-Wilson whose discussions helped to develop my thinking considerably. I thank them also for their outstanding research and editing skills. Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains. Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005), 5 Saidiya V. Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-making in 19th Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.) Toni Morrison, "The Official Story: Dead Man Golfing." in Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case, ed. Toni Morrison (New York: Pantheon Books, 1997), xv. Anthony Paul Farley, "The Black Body as Fetish Objects," Orlando Law Review 76 (1997): 457–530. Sara Ahmed, Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality (London and New York: Routledge, 2000). Ibid., 132. Ibid., 140. Ibid., 125. Sherene H. Razack Dark Threats & White Knights: The Somalia affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004). Witness the Evil. Produced by the Department of National Defence, 1998. (Video, 30 minutes). The Unseen Scars: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. CBC Television, This Magazine (25 November 1998). Accessed on line, 23 June 2003. CBC TV at http://www.tv.cbc.ca/national/pgminfo/ptsd/wounds.html Liisa H. Malkki, "Speechless Emissaries: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and Dehistoricization," Cultural Anthropology 11.3 (1996): 392–393. Ibid., 393. Ibid., 390. Dana Nelson, National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men (Raleigh, NC: Duke University Press, 1998), 10–11. Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1993). Ibid., 25. Chinua Achebe, "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness," in Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays, 1965–1987 (London: Heinemann, 1988), 8, 1–39. Nelson, 10–11. Ibid, 16. Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire (2003). Directed by Peter Raymont. (Documentary Canada 2004, 91 minutes). This documentary won the Governor General's award for non-fiction and the Writer's Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for political writing. Sandra Martin, "The Globe Review," Globe and Mail (31 January 2005): R1. Jane Taber, "Dallaire's Frenzied Quest for Land," Globe and Mail (25 March, 2005):A1. Liam Lacey, "A Firm Grip on Tragedy," Globe and Mail (18 February 2005): R14. Martin, "The Globe Review." Patrick Evans, "Behind the Scenes of a Genocide," Kingston Whig-Standard (29 January 2005): 1. Heather Mallick, "Look, a map of the murderous mind," Globe and Mail (31 January 2005): F4. Ibid. Jeffrey Simpson, "Rwanda, Darfur…What are We Waiting For?" Globe and Mail (27 August 2004): A15. Available on line at www.paxwarrior.com as cited in Martin. Film maker Michael Donovan, quoted in Canadian Press, "Dallaire's Rwandan Tale Slated for Film," Globe and Mail (25 September 2003): R3. John Griffin, "Dallaire's Demons," The Montreal Gazette (11 February 2005): D12. Alex Strachan, "Fine Tuning," Regina Leader Post (31 January 2005): D7. Ibid. Katherine Monk, "Dallaire's story wins top doc award at Sundance Festival," Kingston Whig-Standard (31 January 2005):12. Jay Stone, "The Road Less Traveled," Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (28 January 2005): D1. Ahmed, 132. Ibid., 125. Hartman, 18. Megan Boler, Feeling Power: Emotions and Education (New York: Routledge, 1999), 158. Ibid., 161. Sontag, 102–103. J. M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello (London: Vintage Random House, 2004). Charlotte Delbo was a non-Jewish French member of the resistance who survived Auschwitz. See Jennifer L. Geddes, "Banal Evil and Useless Knowledge: Hannah Arendt and Charlotte Delbo on Evil after the Holocaust," Hypatia 18.1 (2003): 113. Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), 41. Ibid., 42. Elizabeth V. Spelman, Fruits of Sorrow: Framing our Attention to Suffering (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997). Ibid., 87. Ibid., 88. Boler, 164. Ibid. Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001), 10. Elizabeth Alexander, "Can you be BLACK and Look at This?: Reading the Rodney King Video(s)," in The Black Public Sphere Collective: A Public Culture Book, ed. The Black Public Sphere Collective (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), 81–98. Wole Soyinka, "From The Burden of Memory: The Muse of Forgiveness," in Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology, eds. Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgeois (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), 475–477.