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Humanitarian borders : unequal mobility and saving lives / Polly Pallister-Wilkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pallister-Wilkins, Polly, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humanitarian assistance--Political aspects.
- Humanitarian assistance.
- Borderlands--Political aspects.
- Borderlands.
- Equality.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Verso Books, 2022.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- 2. Unequal Mobility and Humanitarian Borderwork
- The Global Colour Line
- The Tools of the Global Colour Line: Passports, Visas and Border Controls
- The Politics of Saving Lives: from Colonial Amelioration to Structuring Violence
- Humanitarian Borderwork
- 3. Care and (Border) Control
- The Good, the Bad and the Invisible
- Extending the Line
- Deepening the Line
- Blurring the Line
- Pre-emptive Rescue
- 4. Medecins Avec Frontieres
- Mobile Humanitarians
- Pop-Up Humanitarianism
- Humanitarianism on the Move
- Viscose Velocity in Humanitarian Medical Care
- Search and Rescue, Visibility, and the Making of Publics
- Feasibility, and the Political Possibilities of Humanitarian Intervention
- Humanitarian Solutions to Political Problems?
- 5. Grassroots™ Humanitarianism
- The Privileges of the Ordinary
- The Entrepreneurial Lightness of Being
- The Frontiers of Fame
- A Bag of Chocolate Milk and a Shoe
- No White Saviour Bullshit Here
- Mapping Border Spaces, Making Mobility
- Criminalising Humanitarianism
- No Borders?
- 6. Decolonising Mobility and Humanitarianism?
- Humanitarian Borderwork and the Debilitation of Movement
- Developmental Borderwork
- Autonomy of Migration and Mobility Justice
- Decolonising Mobility
- Post-humanist Possibilities
- Decolonising Humanitarianism
- Humanitarian Futures.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1839765992
- 9781839765995
- OCLC:
- 1252049913
- Publisher Number:
- 99991401545
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