Love and liberation humanitarian work in Ethiopia's Somali region

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"An ethnography of the global humanitarian industry, centered on the appropriation and reimagining of relief by Somalis in Ethiopia. Policymakers and aid workers there are creatively using humanitarian funding to build autonomous governmental structures. In so doing, Somalis are essentially dec...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carruth, Lauren, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] Cornell University Press 2021.
Subjects:
Humanitarian assistance > Ethiopia > Somali Region.
Humanitarianism > Political aspects > Ethiopia > Somali Region.
Humanitarian aid workers > Ethiopia > Somali Region.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Humanitarian aid workers
Humanitarian assistance
Humanitarianism > Political aspects
Ethiopia > Somali Region
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: "I cannot give it up:" life and work in crisis
  • Introduction: humanitarianism in the margins of empire
  • The production and veneration of "the local"
  • Humanitarianism is samafal
  • Humanitarian work
  • Crisis work
  • Humanitarianism as anti-politics
  • From crisis to liberation

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