Joël Glasman

Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs (eBook, ePUB)

Minimal Humanity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides the first historical inquiry into the quantification of needs in humanitarian assistance. Ultimately the book argues that we cannot understand the global humanitarian aid movement, if we do not understand how humanitarian agencies made human suffering commensurable across borders in the first place.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000762594
• Artikelnr.: 58387766

Autorenporträt

Joël Glasman is Professor of African History at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Minimal Humanity: The Commensuration of Human Suffering on a
Global Scale 1. Concepts. Elements for a genealogy of needology 2.
Classifications. UNHCR and the legibility of refugees in Central Africa 3.
Measures. Malnutrition, MUAC, and the materialization of anthropometry 4.
Standards. The 'Sphere project' and the universalization of the vital
minimum after Goma 5. Registration. Refugees and the emergence of a
humanitarian field in Cameroun 6. Vulnerability. Impartial algorithms and
analog malnutrition Conclusion: Infrastructures of commensurability