The need to help the domestic arts of international humanitarianism /
Malkki, Liisa H.
The need to help the domestic arts of international humanitarianism / [Texte imprimé] : Liisa H. Malkki - Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015 - 1 vol. (X-270 p.) : couv. ill. ; 24 cm
Bibliogr. p. 235-266
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
978-0-8223-5912-8
Humanitarian assistance International relief Helping behavior
361.26
The need to help the domestic arts of international humanitarianism / [Texte imprimé] : Liisa H. Malkki - Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015 - 1 vol. (X-270 p.) : couv. ill. ; 24 cm
Bibliogr. p. 235-266
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
978-0-8223-5912-8
Humanitarian assistance International relief Helping behavior
361.26