Malkki The Need to Help

The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7536-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

In this ethnography Liisa H. Malkki reverses the study of humanitarian aid, focusing on aid workers rather than aid's recipients. She shows how aid serves the needs of its recipients and providers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malkki, Liisa H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Folgen von Katastrophen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.