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The Need to Help
The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism
Taschenbuch von Liisa H. Malkki
Sprache: Englisch

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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," led Malkki to spend more than a decade interviewing members of the international Finnish Red Cross, as well as observing Finns who volunteered from their homes through gifts of handwork. The need to help, she shows, can come from a profound neediness-the need for aid workers and volunteers to be part of the lively world and something greater than themselves, and, in the case of the elderly who knit "trauma teddies" and "aid bunnies" for "needy children," the need to fight loneliness and loss of personhood. In seriously examining aspects of humanitarian aid often dismissed as sentimental, or trivial, Malkki complicates notions of what constitutes real political work. She traces how the international is always entangled in the domestic, whether in the shape of the need to leave home or handmade gifts that are an aid to sociality and to the imagination of the world.
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," led Malkki to spend more than a decade interviewing members of the international Finnish Red Cross, as well as observing Finns who volunteered from their homes through gifts of handwork. The need to help, she shows, can come from a profound neediness-the need for aid workers and volunteers to be part of the lively world and something greater than themselves, and, in the case of the elderly who knit "trauma teddies" and "aid bunnies" for "needy children," the need to fight loneliness and loss of personhood. In seriously examining aspects of humanitarian aid often dismissed as sentimental, or trivial, Malkki complicates notions of what constitutes real political work. She traces how the international is always entangled in the domestic, whether in the shape of the need to leave home or handmade gifts that are an aid to sociality and to the imagination of the world.
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Liisa H. Malkki
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 282
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822359326
ISBN-10: 0822359324
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Malkki, Liisa H.
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Liisa H. Malkki
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.09.2015
Gewicht: 0,413 kg
preigu-id: 104924678
Über den Autor
Liisa H. Malkki
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 282
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822359326
ISBN-10: 0822359324
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Malkki, Liisa H.
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Liisa H. Malkki
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.09.2015
Gewicht: 0,413 kg
preigu-id: 104924678
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