The Routledge international handbook of critical philanthropy and humanitarianism / edited by Katharyne Mitchell and Polly Pallister-Wilkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mitchell, Katharyne, editor.

Pallister-Wilkins, Polly, editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Endowments--History.

Endowments.

Humanitarianism--History.

Humanitarianism.

Imperialism--History.

Imperialism.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

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.

Summary:

"This handbook builds a shared understanding of the troubling politics of philanthropy and the disturbing history and practices of humanitarianism. While historical work on philanthropy has long suggested a link between imperial rule and humanitarian aid, these insights have only recently been brought to bear on contemporary forms of giving. In this book, contributors link the long history of colonial philanthropy to current foundations and their programs in education, health, migrant care and other social initiatives. They argue that humanitarianism not only alleviates the inequalities wrought by global capitalism to allow for the secure and efficient functioning of the market, but humanitarianism also performs and consolidates liberal market rationalities around efficiency, expansion and increasingly neoliberal entrepreneurialism. Philanthropy and humanitarianism share a history, growing together out of modernist socio-economic relations and modes of imperial rule. However, the histories and contemporary politics of the two have not been brought together with such breadth or under such a critical lens before. Discussing philanthropy and humanitarianism together, combining both historical scope and contemporary iterations, highlights continuities and convergences-making the volume a unique introduction and critical overview of critical work in these sister-fields"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Monopoly philanthropy and the humanitarian New World Order / Katharyne Mitchell and Polly Pallister-Wilkins

Neoliberalism, philanthropy, and humanitarianism : pragmatic or faustian bargains? / Michael Barnett

Social impact investing / Emily Rosenman

Universal basic income / Stephen Young

Labor / Elisa Pascucci

Political economy of educational philanthropy : from venture philanthropy to digital privatization / Kenneth J. Saltman

Immunizing against access? Philanthrocapitalist COVID vaccines and the preservation of patent monopolies / Matthew Sparke and Orly Levy

Philanthrocapitalism seen from South Africa : Bill Gates' charity turns to tyranny, misfired silver bullets, and climate vandalism / Patrick Bond, Liepollo Lebohang Pheko, and Alex Lenferna

Humanitarianism and the non-European World / Beste İşleyen

Design : the colonial imaginary of humanitarian good(s) / Mahmoud Keshavarz

Nigeria and the humanitarian international : from Biafra to Boko Haram / Michael J. Watts

Neither "philanthropy" nor "development" : a tale of two buzzwords / Jorge Garcia-Arias and Juanjo Mediavilla

Careful killing : humanitarian warfare and the politics of precision violence / Richard Nisa

Humanitarianism through ubuntu philosophy / Michael Onyebuchi Eze

Celebrity : a key concept for understanding the power of "helping" / Lisa Ann Richey

Metrics, legibility, and the logics of governance in philanthropy and humanitarian aid : a politics of knowledge approach / Jaimie Morse

Modernism and technology in humanitarian action / Tom Scott-Smith

The spirit of climate philanthropy / Edouard Morena

Obstruction / William Plowright

Nation-building and its exclusions : elite philanthropy and the limits of social reform / Adam Saifer and Arun Kumar

Philanthropy in France and Colonial Haiti : bienfaisance, paternalism, and race / Erica Johnson Edwards

Humanitarian futures / Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Hanno Brankamp, Elisa Pascucci, Lisa Ann Richey, James Smith, Lewis Turner, Tammam Aloudat, and William Plowright.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 1st, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge international handbook of critical philanthropy and humanitarianism.

ISBN:

9781003162711

1003162711

1000837572

9781000837599

1000837599

9781000837575

OCLC:

1356050533

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.