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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Intervention Encounters in a New World Order -- Interlude: International Authority and Bosnia after Dayton -- 1. The Limits of Foreign Authority: Publicity and the Political Logic of Ambivalence -- 2. The Uses of History: Recontextualization and International Intervention -- Interlude: Field Sites, Field Methods, Field Contexts -- 3. Doing Things with Ethnicity -- 4. From Humanitarianism to Humanitarianization: Managing the Instabilities of International Aid -- 5. Entextualization and the Making of International Authority -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index

"Based on original empirical research in Australia, this book presents a detailed analysis of the political complexities, compromises, and investments that underpin LGBT efforts to achieve sexual rights and protections"--

"This book investigates the ways in which the humanitarian system is secular and responds to religious beliefs and practices when responding to disasters. The book teases out the reasons why humanitarians are reluctant to engage with what is seen as 'messy' cultural dynamics within the communities they work with, and how this can lead to strained or broken relationships with disaster-affected populations and irrelevant and inappropriate disaster assistance that imposes distant and relatively meaningless values. In order to interrogate secular boundaries within humanitarian response, the book draws particularly on qualitative primary data from the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The case study shows how religious practices and beliefs strongly influence people's disaster experience, yet humanitarian organisations often failed to recognise or engage with this. Whilst secularity in the humanitarian system does not completely exclude religious participation and expression, it does create biases and boundaries. Many humanitarians view their secularity as essential to their position of impartiality and cultural sensitivity in comparison to what was seen as the biased and unprofessional beliefs and practices of religions and religious actors, even though disaster-affected people felt that it was the secular humanitarians that were less impartial and culturally sensitive. This empirically driven examination of the role of secularity within humanitarianism will be of interest to the growing field of 'pracademic' researchers across NGOs, government, consultancy, and think tanks, as well as researchers working directly within academic institutions"--

"On June 13-14, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a multistakeholder workshop to examine the transitions affecting global health and innovative global health solutions. The goal of bringing these two topics together was to collectively explore models for innovative partnerships and private-sector engagement with the potential to support countries in transition. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop"--Publisher's description

Introduction -- Truth Decay's four trends -- Historical context: is Truth Decay new? -- Drivers: what is causing Truth Decay? -- The consequences of Truth Decay -- The road to solutions: a research agenda -- Additional information about our methodology

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