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Informationen zum Autor Antonio De Lauri is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Milan Bicocca. He has undertaken fieldwork in Afghanistan since 2005, with a focus on legal reconstruction, human rights, war and humanitarian intervention. He is currently part of an international research project on slavery and forms of extreme dependence. Klappentext Humanitarian intervention has increasingly become the prevalent means of providing protection and aid at a global level. Yet alongside its success concerns have been raised that humanitarianism has increasingly become an economic enterprise and a political tool for controlling territories and governing international relations. In The Politics of Humanitarianism authors from a variety of disciplines provide a comprehensive critique of the humanitarian enterprise. How are those on the end of humanitarian action influenced by different epistemologies and applications of international law? What is the complex relationship between values - what humanitarian action is intended to be - and practice - what happens on the ground? Combining international case studies with critical theoretical evaluations, and including chapters on international aid, refugees, childhood and women's rights, The Politics of Humanitarianism offers a timely and critical analysis of the contemporary humanitarian system. Vorwort This book provides a comprehensive critique of humanitarian intervention. Zusammenfassung This book provides a comprehensive critique of humanitarian intervention. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents 1. Introduction Antonio De Lauri 2. Governing the Crisis: A Critical Genealogy of Humanitarian Intervention Mariella Pandolfi and Philip Rousseau 3. Humanitarianism as Pretext: Defining what is Moral and Just Laura Nader and Robin Savinar 4. Humanitarian Theatre: Normality and the Carnivalesque in Afghanistan Julie Billaud and Antonio De Lauri 5. 'I'm doing it for myself!': The Aggressive Promotion of the Individual Self as the Dark Side of Women's Rights Elisabetta Grande 6. Batoto wa Maria: Humanitarianism, the Provincial State, Missionaries and the Concept of Childhood in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Edoardo Quaretta 7. The Politics of International Aid: The Impact of Local Politics and International Priorities on Aid Allocation in Yemen Alexandra Lewis 8. A Sovereign for All: The Management of Refugees as Nation-State Politics Sophie Hoffmann Index ...
