The need to help: the domestic arts of international humanitarianism

Introduction: Need, imagination, and the humanitarian care of the self -- Professionals abroad: occupational solidarity and international desire as humanitarian motives -- Impossible situations: affective impasses and their afterlives in humanitarian and ethnographic fieldwork -- Figurations of the...

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Main Author: Malkki, Liisa H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press 2015
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Summary:Introduction: Need, imagination, and the humanitarian care of the self -- Professionals 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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 270 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9780822375364
0822375362

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