The need to help : the domestic arts of international humanitarianism / Liisa H. Malkki.
In The Need to Help Liisa H. Malkki shifts the focus of the study of humanitarian intervention from aid recipients to aid workers themselves. The anthropological commitment to understand the motivations and desires of these professionals and how they imagine themselves in the world "out there,&...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.