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Author |
: Michael Mascarenhas |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 179 |
Release |
: 2017-05-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253026583 |
ISBN-13 |
: 025302658X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis New Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Charity by : Michael Mascarenhas
“An excellent addition to courses on development, inequality, public policy, and globalization, and it could . . . be read by an audience beyond sociologists.”—American Journal of Sociology Soaring poverty levels and 24-hour media coverage of global disasters have caused a surge in the number of international non-governmental organizations that address suffering on a massive scale. But how are these new global networks transforming the politics and power dynamics of humanitarian policy and practice? In New Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Charity, Michael Mascarenhas considers that issue using water management projects in India and Rwanda as case studies. Mascarenhas analyzes the complex web of agreements ?both formal and informal?that are made between businesses, governments, and aid organizations, as well as the contradictions that arise when capitalism meets humanitarianism. “Insightful . . . provides a scathing critique of the new humanitarianism.” —University of Chicago Press Journals
Author |
: Erica Bornstein |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2012-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804782081 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0804782083 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Disquieting Gifts by : Erica Bornstein
“[This] artful ethnography . . . challenges us to reconsider both what giving looks like, and the relational possibilities of anthropological practice itself.” —Jocelyn L. Chua, American Ethnologist While most people would not consider sponsoring an orphan’s education to be in the same category as international humanitarian aid, both acts are linked by the desire to give. Many studies focus on the outcomes of humanitarian work, but the impulses that inspire people to engage in the first place receive less attention. Disquieting Gifts takes a close look at people working on humanitarian projects in New Delhi to explore why they engage in philanthropic work, what humanitarianism looks like to them, and the ethical and political tangles they encounter. Motivated by debates surrounding Marcel Mauss’s The Gift, Bornstein investigates specific cases of people engaged in humanitarian work to reveal different perceptions of assistance to strangers versus assistance to kin, how the impulse to give to others in distress is tempered by its regulation, suspicions about recipient suitability, and why the figure of the orphan is so valuable in humanitarian discourse. The book also focuses on vital humanitarian efforts that often go undocumented and ignored and explores the role of empathy in humanitarian work. “Bornstein . . . delineate[s] a ‘global economy of giving’ while questioning Western preconceptions about humanitarianism.” —Jonathan Benthall, Times Literary Supplement “Insightful and beautifully written . . . accessible and engaging.” —Pierre Minn, Social Anthropology “Conveys deep insights into international and intra-Indian charity and volunteering.” —Jonathan Benthall, University College London “Reveals the complexity of the contemporary moral economies of the gift.” —Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study, author of Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present
Author |
: Johannes Paulmann |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 315 |
Release |
: 2018-12-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781785339622 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1785339621 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Humanitarianism and Media by : Johannes Paulmann
From Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today’s NGOs, this interdisciplinary collection explores the entangled histories of humanitarianism and media. It traces the emergence of humanitarian imagery in the West and investigates how the meanings of suffering and aid have been constructed in a period of evolving mass communication, demonstrating the extent to which many seemingly new phenomena in fact have long historical legacies. Ultimately, the critical histories collected here help to challenge existing asymmetries and help those who advocate a new cosmopolitan consciousness recognizing the dignity and rights of others.
Author |
: Bruno Cabanes |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 399 |
Release |
: 2014-03-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107020627 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110702062X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918-1924 by : Bruno Cabanes
Pioneering study of the transition from war to peace and the birth of humanitarian rights after the Great War.
Author |
: Norbert Götz |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 371 |
Release |
: 2020-07-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108493529 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108493521 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Humanitarianism in the Modern World by : Norbert Götz
A fresh look at two centuries of humanitarian history through a moral economy approach focusing on appeals, allocation, and accounting.
Author |
: Michael Maren |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 520 |
Release |
: 2009-11-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439188415 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1439188416 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Road to Hell by : Michael Maren
A stunning personal narrative of best intentions gone awry, Michael Maren, at one time an aid worker and journalist in Somalia, writes of the failure of international charities. Michael Maren spent years in Africa, first as an aid worker, later as a journalist, where he witnessed at a harrowing series of wars, famines, and natural disasters. In this book, he claims that charities, such as CARE and Save the Children, are less concerned with relief than we think. Maren also attacks the United Nation's "humanitarian" missions are controlled by agribusinesses and infighting bureaucrats.
Author |
: Michael N. Barnett |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2020-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108836791 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108836798 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Humanitarianism and Human Rights by : Michael N. Barnett
Explores the fluctuating relationship between human rights and humanitarianism and the changing nature of the politics and practices of humanity.
Author |
: Volker M. Heins |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2016-02-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317332206 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317332202 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Humanitarianism and Challenges of Cooperation by : Volker M. Heins
Humanitarianism as a moral concept and an organized practice has become a major factor in world society. It channels an enormous amount of resources and serves as an argument for different kinds of interference into the "internal affairs" of countries and regions. At the same time, and for these very reasons, it is an ideal testing ground for successful and unsuccessful cooperation across borders. Humanitarianism and the Challenges of Cooperation examines the multiple humanitarianisms of today as a testing ground for new ways of global cooperation. General trends in the contemporary transformation of humanitarianism are studied and individual cases of how humanitarian actors cooperate with others on the ground are investigated. This book offers a highly innovative, empirically informed account of global humanitarianism from the point of view of cooperation research in which internationally renowned contributors analyse broad trends and present case studies based on meticulous fieldwork. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers in the areas of political science, international relations and humanitarianism. It is also a valuable resource for humanitarian aid workers.
Author |
: Didier Fassin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1935408011 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781935408017 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contemporary States of Emergency by : Didier Fassin
The new form of "humanitarian government" emerging from natural disasters and military occupations that reduces people to mere lives to be rescued. From natural disaster areas to zones of political conflict around the world, a new logic of intervention combines military action and humanitarian aid, conflates moral imperatives and political arguments, and confuses the concepts of legitimacy and legality. The mandate to protect human lives--however and wherever endangered--has given rise to a new form of humanitarian government that moves from one crisis to the next, applying the same battery of technical expertise (from military logistics to epidemiological risk management to the latest social scientific tools for "good governance") and reducing people with particular histories and hopes to mere lives to be rescued. This book explores these contemporary states of emergency. Drawing on the critical insights of anthropologists, legal scholars, political scientists, and practitioners from the field, Contemporary States of Emergency examines historical antecedents as well as the moral, juridical, ideological, and economic conditions that have made military and humanitarian interventions common today. It addresses the practical process of intervention in global situations on five continents, describing both differences and similarities, and examines the moral and political consequences of these generalized states of emergency and the new form of government associated with them.
Author |
: Fiona Terry |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 299 |
Release |
: 2013-04-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801468643 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801468647 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Condemned to Repeat? by : Fiona Terry
Humanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their activity: humanitarian action aims to alleviate suffering, but by inadvertently sustaining conflict it potentially prolongs suffering. In Condemned to Repeat?, Terry examines the side-effects of intervention by aid organizations and points out the need to acknowledge the political consequences of the choice to give aid. The author makes the controversial claim that aid agencies act as though the initial decision to supply aid satisfies any need for ethical discussion and are often blind to the moral quandaries of aid. Terry focuses on four historically relevant cases: Rwandan camps in Zaire, Afghan camps in Pakistan, Salvadoran and Nicaraguan camps in Honduras, and Cambodian camps in Thailand. Terry was the head of the French section of Medecins sans frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) when it withdrew from the Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire because aid intended for refugees actually strengthened those responsible for perpetrating genocide. This book contains documents from the former Rwandan army and government that were found in the refugee camps after they were attacked in late 1996. This material illustrates how combatants manipulate humanitarian action to their benefit. Condemned to Repeat? makes clear that the paradox of aid demands immediate attention by organizations and governments around the world. The author stresses that, if international agencies are to meet the needs of populations in crisis, their organizational behavior must adjust to the wider political and socioeconomic contexts in which aid occurs.