The need to help the domestic arts of international humanitarianism
Introduction: Need, imagination, and the humanitarian care of the selfProfessionals abroad: occupational solidarity and international desire as humanitarian motives -- Impossible situations: affective impasses and their afterlives in humanitarian and ethnographic fieldwork -- Figurations of the huma...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London u. a.
Duke University Press
2015
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: Need, imagination, and the humanitarian care of the selfProfessionals abroad: occupational solidarity and international desire as humanitarian motives -- Impossible situations: affective impasses and their afterlives in humanitarian and ethnographic fieldwork -- Figurations of the human: children, humanity, and the infantilization of peace -- Bear humanity: children, animals, and other power-objects of the humanitarian -- Imagination -- Homemade humanitarianism: knitting and loneliness -- A zealous humanism and its limits: sacrifice and the hazards of neutrality -- Conclusion: the power of the mere: humanitarianism as domestic art and imaginative politics. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | X, 270 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 9780822359128 978-0-8223-5912-8 9780822359326 978-0-8223-5932-6 |