Liisa H Malkki

The Need to Help

The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism

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Produktbeschreibung

Liisa H. Malkki is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. She is the author of Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania, and the coauthor of Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780822359128
• ISBN-10: 082235912X
• Artikelnr.: 42129113

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