The Biafran War and postcolonial humanitarianism: Spectacles of suffering
本书深入分析了比夫拉战争如何催生了一种重塑20世纪下半叶战争实践的人道主义形式，并揭示了至今仍在延续的非洲暴力表现模式的起源，对历史学者及国际组织政策制定者均有价值。
In The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism: Spectacles of Suffering, Lasse Heerten offers a rigorously researched, comprehensive analysis of a war that was critical not only to Nigeria’s national history but also to the ascendance of a form of humanitarianism that remade the practice of war in the second half of the 20th century. In the story of Biafra, Heerten also finds the origin of a mode of representing violence in Africa that still endures. The book is a detailed autopsy of a humanitarian response and, for this reason, it will be of interest not only to historians but also to policymakers in government and international organizations. It is both a valuable account of Biafra’s history in the international sphere, and an important contribution to many thematic areas—especially the history of human rights. The central conceit of the book is the spectacle, which has two meanings for Heerten. ‘It...