Saving the World? - Western Volunteers Rise of Humanitarian Development Complex

An innovative history of how volunteers helped build a global consensus that Western development intervention across the Global South was desirable, even as critics in aid-recipient nations suggested it was a form of neocolonialism. It will benefit scholars and students of history, development studies and international relations.

List of contents

Introduction: Western volunteers and the rise of the humanitarian-development complex; 1. An idea for all seasons; 2. Conquering the globe; 3. Buying into the humanitarian-development complex; 4. Sentimental radicals and adventurers; 5. The publicity machine; 6. The view from the other side; 7. A little colony; 8. The intimacy of the humanitarian-development complex; 9. Resistance; 10. To hell with good intentions.

About the author

Agnieszka Sobocinska is Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University, Australia.

Summary

An innovative history of how volunteers helped build a global consensus that Western development intervention across the Global South was desirable, even as critics in aid-recipient nations suggested it was a form of neocolonialism. It will benefit scholars and students of history, development studies and international relations.

Product details

• Authors: Agnieszka Sobocinska, Agnieszka (Monash University Sobocinska, Sobocinska Agnieszka
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2022
• EAN: 9781108746885
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74688-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Global and International History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; General & world history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Australasian & Pacific history, General and world history, History of the Americas, International humanitarian law, Australasian and Pacific history, Public international law: humanitarian law