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This handbook builds a shared understanding of the troubling politics of philanthropy and the disturbing history and practices of humanitarianism.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 - Introduction. Monopoly Philanthropy and the Humanitarian New World Order
Part 1: Philanthropy, Humanitarianism and Political Economy Chapter 2 - Neoliberalism, Philanthropy, and Humanitarianism: Pragmatic or Faustian Bargains? Chapter 3 - Social Impact Investing Chapter 4 - Universal Basic Income Chapter 5 - Labour Chapter 6 - Political Economy of Educational Philanthropy: From Venture Philanthropy to Digital Privatization Chapter 7 - Immunizing Against Access? Philanthro-Capitalist COVID Vaccines and the Preservation of Patent Monopolies Chapter 8 - Philanthrocapitalism Seen from South Africa: Bill Gates' Charity Turns to Tyranny, Misfired Silver Bullets and Climate Vandalism
Part 2: Humanitarianism, Development and Humanitarian Developments Chapter 9 - Humanitarianism and the non-European world Chapter 10 - Design: The Colonial Imaginary of Humanitarian Good(s) Chapter 11 - Nigeria and the Humanitarian International: From Biafra to Boko Haram Chapter 12 - Neither 'Philanthropy' nor 'Development': A Tale of Two Buzzwords Chapter 13 - Careful Killing: Humanitarian Warfare and the Politics of Precision Violence Chapter 14 - Humanitarianism through Ubuntu Philosophy Chapter 15 - Celebrity: A Key Concept for Understanding the Power of 'Helping'
Part 3: Philanthro-Humanitarianism: Projects, Problems and Practices Chapter 16 - Metrics, Legibility, and the Logics of Governance in Philanthropy and Humanitarian Aid: A Politics of Knowledge Approach Chapter 17 - Modernism and Technology in Humanitarian Action Chapter 18 - The Spirit of Climate Philanthropy Chapter 19 - "Obstruction." Chapter 20 - Nation-building and its Exclusions: Elite Philanthropy and the Limits of Social Reform Chapter 21 - Philanthropy in France and Colonial Haiti:
Bienfaisance, Paternalism, and Race Chapter 22 - Humanitarian Futures
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Katharyne Mitchell is dean of the social sciences and a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Polly Pallister-Wilkins is a political geographer and associate professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Amsterdam and is a co-editor of
Geopolitics.
Zusammenfassung
This handbook builds a shared understanding of the troubling politics of philanthropy and the disturbing history and practices of humanitarianism.
