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The Salvation Agenda: The Politics of Medical Humanitarianism During Zimbabwe's Cholera Outbreak 2008/09

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Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
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In this New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Simukai Chigudu examines the humanitarian politics of responding to the most catastrophic cholera outbreak in African history.
The paper demonstrates how humanitarian relief operations are riven by competing claims to leadership, authority and legitimacy but often converge on the ineluctable logic of saving lives - 'the salvation agenda'. Nevertheless, the paper contends that the exigency of saving lives in this case did not, and could not, address the background political and socio-economic conditions that led to the epidemic. Thus, the paper explores the possibilities, pitfalls and paradoxes of the salvation agenda and mounts a novel critique of how the humanitarian industrial complex operates in Africa.

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Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
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Simukai Chigudu
Keywords
humanitarian relief
cholera
zimbabwe
Department: Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Date Added: 12/02/2019
Duration: 00:50:33

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