Liisa H. Malkki

The Need to Help

The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism

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Produktbeschreibung

In this ethnography Liisa H. Malkki reverses the study of humanitarian aid, focusing on aid workers rather than aid's recipients. She shows how aid serves the needs of its recipients and providers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9780822359326
• ISBN-10: 0822359324
• Artikelnr.: 42129829

Autorenporträt

Liisa H. Malkki

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Need, Imagination, and the Care of the Self  1
1. Professionals Abroad: Occupational Solidarity and International Desire
as Humanitarian Motives  23
2. Impossible Situations: Affective Impasses and Their Afterlives in
Humanitarian and Ethnographic Fieldwork  53
3. Figurations of the Human: Children, Humanity, and the Infantilization of
Peace  77
4. Bear Humanity: Children, Animals, and Other Power Objects of the
Humanitarian Imagination  105
5. Homemade Humanitarianism: Knitting and Loneliness  133
6. A Zealous Humanism and Its Limits: Sacrifice and the Hazards of
Neutrality  165
Conclusion. The Power of the Mere: Humanitarianism as Domestic Art and
Imaginative Politics  199
Notes  209
References  235
Index  267