Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity

Contents

C O N T E N T S Introduction The Racial Reorientations of U.S. Humanitarian Imperialism 1 1 Racial Time and the Other Mapping the Postsocialist Transition 33 2 The Vietnam War and the Ethics of Failure Heart of Darkness and the Emergence of Humanitarian Feeling at the Limits of Imperial Critique 73 3 Restoring National Faith The Soviet–Afghan War in U.S. Media and Politics 102 4 Dracula as Ethnic Conflict The Technologies of Humanitarian Militarism in Serbia and Kosovo 128 5 The Feminist Politics of Secular Redemption at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia 166 Epilogue Beyond Spectacle: The Hidden Geographies of the War at Home 200 Acknowledgments 209 Notes 213 Index 251 This page intentionally left blank ...