Introduction : "building back better" -- Nagapattinam -- The tsunami of 2004 and Its aftermath -- Artisanal fishers, the state, and an NGO -- The politics of humanitarianism -- NGO antipolitics and politics --The humanitarian gift economy -- Economic development and humanitarian…
"Critically examines the role of humanitarian aid and disaster reconstruction"--
"Critically examines the role of humanitarian aid and disaster reconstruction"--
Humanitarian Invasion provides a history of international developmentand humanitarianism in Cold War Afghanistan.
Humanitarian Invasion is the first book of its kind: a ground-level inside account of what development and humanitarianism meant for Afghanistan, a country touched by international aid like no other. Relying on Soviet, Western, and NGO archives, interviews with Soviet advisers a…
"... Relying on Soviet, Western, and NGO archives, interviews with Soviet advisers and NGO workers, and Afghan sources, [the author] forges a vivid account of the impact of development on a country on the front lines of the Cold War. Nunan argues that Afghanistan functioned as a…
Humanitarian Invasion provides a history of international development and humanitarianism in Cold War Afghanistan.
"This book identifies the history, conventions and uses of the language of security, and argues that it distorts information and misleads the public, misidentifies the focus of concern, and omits narratives able to recognize the causes and solutions to humanitarian crises. The c…
This book identifies the history, conventions, and uses of security discourses, and argues that such language and media frames distort information and mislead the public, misidentify the focus of concern, and omit narratives able to recognize the causes and solutions to humanita…
Based on more than a decade of research, this book explores the assumptions underpinning existing explanations of and responses to violence against aid workers. According to Fast, most explanations of attacks locate the causes externally and maintain an image of aid workers as a…
Aid in Danger explores why aid workers are attacked, kidnapped, and killed around the world and critically examines how aid agencies respond to these dangers. It addresses a timely and neglected topic, providing a unique analytical perspective on broader issues of humanitarianis…
"Sharing the Front Line and the Back Hills" points to a crisis facing international institutions and the media who seek to alleviate and report human suffering throughout the world. The goals of the editor are to tell the story of thousands of individuals dedicated to helping ot…
