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The Need to Help : The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Malkki, Liisa H. (Liisa Helena) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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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650 7 |a Helping behavior.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00954850 
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650 6 |a Comportement d'aide. 
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650 6 |a Aide humanitaire. 
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