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.
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.
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
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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