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The Need To Help - The Domestic Arts Of International Humanitarianism

by Liisa H. Malkki
$6.06
The Need To Help - The Domestic Arts Of International Humanitarianism - Thryft
The Need To Help - The Domestic Arts Of International Humanitarianism - Thryft

Aid workers' perspective on humanitarianism.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of humanitarian aid from the perspective of aid workers, shedding light on their motivations and challenges. It offers insight into the complexities of international aid and the need for empathy and understanding in humanitarian work. Reviews praise the book's fresh perspective and thought-provoking ideas.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Need To Help - The Domestic Arts Of International Humanitarianism

by Liisa H. Malkki
$6.06
ISBN: 9780822359326
Authors: Liisa H. Malkki
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date of Publication: 2015-09-11
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.15
(rated by 54 readers)

Description

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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