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Auteur Français Malkki, Liisa H. (Liisa Helena)

Titre The need to help : the domestic arts of international humanitarianism / Liisa H. Malkki.

Table des matières
 Acknowledgmentsvii
 Introduction Need, Imagination, and the Care of the Self1
1.Professionals Abroad 
 Occupational Solidarity and International Desire as Humanitarian Motives23
2.Impossible Situations 
 Affective Impasses and Their Afterlives in Humanitarian and Ethnographic Fieldwork53
3.Figurations of the Human 
 Children, Humanity, and the Infantilization of Peace77
4.Bear Humanity 
 Children, Animals, and Other Power Objects of the Humanitarian Imagination105
5.Homemade Humanitarianism 
 Knitting and Loneliness133
6.A Zealous Humanism and Its Limits 
 Sacrifice and the Hazards of Neutrality165
 Conclusion. The Power of the Mere 
 Humanitarianism as Domestic Art and Imaginative Politics199
 Notes209
 References235
 Index267

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 Innovative University Library  HV553 .M264 2015    AVAILABLE
Description x, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent.
Type De Document unmediated n rdamedia.
Carrier Type volume nc rdacarrier.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-266) and index.
Sujet Humanitarian assistance.
International relief.
Helping behavior.
ISBN 9780822359128 (hardcover : alk. paper)
082235912X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780822359326 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822359324 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822375364 (e-book)
0822375362 (e-book)