Cold War Germany, the Third World, and the global humanitarian regime
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In: Human rights in history
This book examines competition and collaboration among Western powers, the socialist bloc, and the Third World for control over humanitarian aid programs during the Cold War. Young-sun Hong's analysis reevaluates the established parameters of German history. On the one hand, global humanitarian efforts functioned as an arena for a three-way political power struggle. On the other, they gave rise to transnational spaces that allowed for multidimensional social and cultural encounters. Hong paints an unexpected view of the global humanitarian regime: Algerian insurgents flown to East Germany for medical care, barefoot Chinese doctors in Tanzania, and West and East German doctors working together in the Congo. She also provides a rich analysis of the experiences of African trainees and Asian nurses in the two Germanys. This book brings an urgently needed historical perspective to contemporary debates on global governance, which largely concern humanitarianism, global health, south-north relationships, and global migration
In: Princeton Studies in Culture
In: Princeton studies in culture/power/history
In: Princeton legacy library
This is the first comprehensive study of the turbulent relationship among state, society, and church in the making of the modern German welfare system during the Weimar Republic. Young-Sun Hong examines the competing conceptions of poverty, citizenship, family, and authority held by the state bureaucracy, socialists, bourgeois feminists, and the major religious and humanitarian welfare organizations. She shows how these conceptions reflected and generated bitter conflict in German society. And she argues that this conflict undermined parliamentary government within the welfare sector in a way
In: Social history, Volume 34, Issue 4, p. 468-471
ISSN: 1470-1200
In: Central European history, Volume 39, Issue 3, p. 531-533
ISSN: 1569-1616
In: Social history, Volume 30, Issue 2, p. 133-153
ISSN: 1470-1200
In: Central European history, Volume 38, Issue 1, p. 147-149
ISSN: 1569-1616
In: Central European history, Volume 37, Issue 2, p. 328-330
ISSN: 1569-1616
In: Central European history, Volume 36, Issue 2, p. 295-297
ISSN: 1569-1616
In: Central European history, Volume 35, Issue 3, p. 327-344
ISSN: 1569-1616
Since the nineteenth century, cleanliness and hygiene have played an integral role in the construction of bourgeois subjectivity and notions of self-governance in Europe. Drawing on this reservoir of potential signification, the spread of a mass consumer society in the twentieth century has capitalized on commodified images of health, hygiene, and cleanliness, while the maintenance and representation of clean bodies for modern men and women became virtually inseparable from consumption. The Nazis both accelerated and gave a racial spin to the idea of a clean, healthy body as the symbol of racially superior, socially productive, and sexually virile Aryans. Whether commodified and sexualized under consumerism or channeled into a murderous project under the Nazis, hygienic and healthy bodies became the object of pleasure and a signifier of superior social and racial identity. When these considerations are taken into account, it is important to inquire into the problems faced by the founding fathers of the GDR with regard to questions of health and consumption. The vision of the socialist "New Man" and the ideal of pure and healthy living that were so frequently invoked in the early years of the GDR must be seen as attempts to forge a positive identity for the new socialist state while avoiding the twin ideological dangers posed by the memory of Nazi racial policies and the implicit connections made between health, consumption, and freedom in the pluralistic consumer society to the west.
In: Central European history, Volume 35, Issue 1, p. 144-146
ISSN: 1569-1616
In: Central European history, Volume 33, Issue 3, p. 441-445
ISSN: 1569-1616
In: Central European history, Volume 30, Issue 3, p. 462-465
ISSN: 1569-1616
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Volume 51, p. 177-179
ISSN: 1471-6445
In: Central European history, Volume 30, Issue 1, p. 1-24
ISSN: 1569-1616
In a talk delivered on 20 September 1918, Gertrud Bäumer, the president of the League of German Women's Associations (BDF) likened the political status of German women to mothers who were forced to nurse their children with their hands tied behind their backs. They were thoroughly frustrated by the destructiveness of the war and were only able to fulfill their duties toward family and nation because they believed that the experience of the war would make the nation stronger.