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Love and liberation : humanitarian work in Ethiopia's Somali region / Lauren Carruth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carruth, Lauren, 1980- author.
- Series:
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Cornell scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humanitarian assistance--Ethiopia--Somali Region.
- Humanitarian assistance.
- Humanitarianism--Political aspects--Ethiopia--Somali Region.
- Humanitarianism.
- Humanitarian aid workers--Ethiopia--Somali Region.
- Humanitarian aid workers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- Lauren Carruth's 'Love and Liberation' tells a new kind of humanitarian story. The protagonists are not volunteers from afar but rather Somali locals caring for each other: nurses, aid workers, policymakers, drivers, community health workers and bureaucrats. The contributions of locals are often taken for granted, and the competencies, aspirations and effectiveness of local staffers frequently remain muted or absent from the planning and evaluation of humanitarian interventions structured by outsiders.
- Contents:
- Prologue: "I cannot give it up:" life and work in crisis
- Introduction: humanitarianism in the margins of empire
- The production and veneration of "the local"
- Humanitarianism is samafal
- Humanitarian work
- Crisis work
- Humanitarianism as anti-politics
- From crisis to liberation.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 2, 2022).
- ISBN:
- 9781501759475
- 1501759477
- 9781501759499
- 1501759493
- OCLC:
- 1235905458
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