Malkki Liisa H. Malkki

Need to Help (eBook, PDF)

The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Need to Help Liisa H. Malkki shifts the focus of the study of humanitarian intervention from aid recipients to aid workers themselves. The anthropological commitment to understand the motivations and desires of these professionals and how they imagine themselves in the world "e;out there,"e; led Malkki to spend more than a decade interviewing members of the international Finnish Red Cross, as well as observing Finns who volunteered from their homes through gifts of handwork. The need to help, she shows, can come from a profound neediness-the need for aid workers and volunteers to be part of the lively world and something greater than themselves, and, in the case of the elderly who knit "e;trauma teddies"e; and "e;aid bunnies"e; for "e;needy children,"e; the need to fight loneliness and loss of personhood. In seriously examining aspects of humanitarian aid often dismissed as sentimental, or trivial, Malkki complicates notions of what constitutes real political work. She traces how the international is always entangled in the domestic, whether in the shape of the need to leave home or handmade gifts that are an aid to sociality and to the imagination of the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822375364
• Artikelnr.: 54793556

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