Humanitarianism in the modern world : the moral economy of famine relief

• Tác giả: Georgina Brewis, Norbert Götz, Steffen Werther
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1108493529
• ISBN: 9781108655903 (ebook)
• ISBN: 9781108737371 (paperback)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 363.8526 Food supply
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (xiv, 355 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 159047
• Chủ đề: 1. Fund raising; 2. Humanitarianism--History; 3. International relief

Tóm tắt

 This is an innovative new history of famine relief and humanitarianism. The authors apply a moral economy approach to shed new light on the forces and ideas that motivated and shaped humanitarian aid during the Great Irish Famine, the famine of 1921-1922 in Soviet Russia and the Ukraine, and the 1980s Ethiopian famine. They place these episodes within a distinctive periodisation of humanitarianism which emphasises the correlations with politico-economic regimes: the time of elitist laissez-faire liberalism in the nineteenth century as one of ad hoc humanitarianism
  that of Taylorism and mass society from c.1900-1970 as one of organised humanitarianism
  and the blend of individualised post-material lifestyles and neoliberal public management since 1970 as one of expressive humanitarianism. The book as a whole shifts the focus of the history of humanitarianism from the imperatives of crisis management to the pragmatic mechanisms of fundraising, relief efforts on the ground, and finance. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.