human safari

plural human safaris

1. Deliberate terrorism against civilians using explosive drones.

   (specifically) A campaign of bomb and drone attacks used by Russian soldiers against Ukrainian civilians in Kherson.

2. Synonym of human zoo (“exhibition of aboriginal humans”).First known use 20th c.

   The main reason that attracted activists like Greg or journalists like Chamberlain to highlight the issue of the Jarawa human safari was the illegal and unethical cultural commodification of the indigenous tribe, especially women.

   2014 July, Debarati Halder, K. Jaishankar, “Online Victimization of Andaman Jarawa Tribal Women: An Analysis of the ‘Human Safari’ YouTube Videos (2012) and Its Effects”, in The British Journal of Criminology, volume 54, number 4, →DOI, page 674

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   Mainly it was designed to expose and shame these evil ‘human safari’ operators. I wanted to - whisper it - go on just such a human safari. But at the same time I respected the Jarawas' decision to, in the main, remain cut off from the world.

   2014, Emma Bamford, Casting Off: How a City Girl Found Happiness on the High Seas, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 213

   I can’t decide whether township tours are a bit like a human safari or a profitable way for local communities to get their voices heard. For me, there’s a narrow space to navigate between the extremes of mawkish voyeurism and the romanticisation of poverty.

   2017, Kathryn Lougheed, Catching Breath: The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 71

   Synonyms: human zoo