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Liisa H. Malkki The Need to Help (Paperback)

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Subject Area : Social Science, Psychology
Publication Name : Need to Help : the Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism
Subtitle : The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism
Publication Year : 2015
Subject : Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Disasters & Disaster Relief, Interpersonal Relations
Type : Textbook
Title : The Need to Help
Genre : Society & Culture
Release Date : 09/11/2015
Item Height : 0.6 in
Format : Trade Paperback
Language : English
Item Width : 6 in
Topic : Social Sciences
Publisher : Duke University Press
Country/Region of Manufacture : US
EAN : 9780822359326
Item Weight : 14.4 Oz
gtin13 : 9780822359326
ISBN-10 : 0822359324
Number of Pages : 296 Pages
Item Length : 9 in
Book Title : The Need to Help
Release Year : 2015
ISBN : 9780822359326
Author : Liisa H. Malkki

Further Details Title: The Need to Help Condition: New Subtitle: The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism Author: Liisa H. Malkki Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0822359324 EAN: 9780822359326 ISBN: 9780822359326 Publisher: Duke University Press Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Social Sciences Release Date: 09/11/2015 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. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Weight: 386g Release Year: 2015 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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