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A Symbolic Approach to Humanitarian ActionRelational Humanitarianism

A Symbolic Approach to Humanitarian Action: Relational Humanitarianism [Someone could argue that societies differ from one another because of the weird caprice of destiny, far from it. Societies result from the interactions and exchange among the members of the eco-social systems across time. The collective conscience that springs from these interactions determine available disaster response coping strategies. The values that inform that collective conscience remains fairly unaltered when you find yourself surrounded by your community members, people you love, and others you know well. When you have in your proximity, instead, tons of people that are unfamiliar to you and whose intentions and reasons for being there are unknown, the value system changes. This is what happens amid a post-disaster context filled with external convergers. This means that societal coping strategies are only appropriate and efficient as long as the value system remains impervious to unwanted foreign elements.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Symbolic Approach to Humanitarian ActionRelational Humanitarianism

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
ISBN
978-3-031-16985-4
Pages
43 –71
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-16986-1_3
Publisher site
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Abstract

[Someone could argue that societies differ from one another because of the weird caprice of destiny, far from it. Societies result from the interactions and exchange among the members of the eco-social systems across time. The collective conscience that springs from these interactions determine available disaster response coping strategies. The values that inform that collective conscience remains fairly unaltered when you find yourself surrounded by your community members, people you love, and others you know well. When you have in your proximity, instead, tons of people that are unfamiliar to you and whose intentions and reasons for being there are unknown, the value system changes. This is what happens amid a post-disaster context filled with external convergers. This means that societal coping strategies are only appropriate and efficient as long as the value system remains impervious to unwanted foreign elements.]

Published: Oct 14, 2022

Keywords: Evolution; Materialization; Humanitarian space; Relations; Value system; Humanitarian deployments; Humanitarian relations; Emergency management

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