The Need to Help
The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism
1st Edition
Published on 3. September 2015
280 pages
978-0-8223-7536-4 (ISBN)
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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.
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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.
Content
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
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
