James Thompson

A groundbreaking lens on humanitarianism, which reframes global humanitarian responses to war and disaster through performance studies, revealing how aid, media, and public attention transform crisis into spectacle on a world stage. As the world is challenged by a state of constant conflict and by disasters, both natural and manmade, support communities endeavour through humanitarianism to overcome human suffering and...

Kept me captivated from first to last page! – MICHAEL CONNELLY The bleakest time of the year in Lapland is known as Kaamos: just before Christmas, when the unrelenting darkness and extreme cold above the Arctic Circle drive everyone just a little insane… perhaps enough to kill. A beautiful Somali immigrant is found dead in a snowfield, her body gruesomely...