The need to help : the domestic arts of international humanitarianism / Liisa H. Malkki.
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TextSpråk: Engelska Utgivningsuppgift: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015Beskrivning: x, 270 sidor illustrationer 24 cmInnehållstyp: - text
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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
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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