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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Humanitarian Aid - New Set Up and New Challenges -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Unique Humanitarian Aid to the Syrians -- The Classical Ethical Principles -- Humanity -- Neutrality -- Impartiality -- Independence -- New Ethical Challenges in Contemporary Humanitarian Operations -- Standards of Treatment -- Treatment Location -- Legal Consideration -- Biographical Sketch -- Chapter 2 -- International Humanitarian Law: The Compliance Challenge -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Compliance Challenge -- Weapons Prohibitions -- The UN Security Council -- Legal Classification and Contemporary Conflict -- Armed Non-State Actors -- The Human Rights Humanitarian Law Interface -- International Criminal Law -- Attempted IHL Institutional Compliance -- Conclusion: Towards Feasible Futures -- References -- About the Author -- Chapter 3 -- Atrocious Crimes and the Multifaceted Dilemma of Humanitarian Interventions in World Politics -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Theoretical Consideration -- The 2011 Libyan Crisis -- The Syrian Crisis -- The Myanmar Crisis -- Emerging Challenges and Prospects of R to P -- References -- Chapter 4 -- Haiti: Quality of Life Eight Years after the Earthquake -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Haiti before the Earthquake -- 2. Quality of Life -- 2.1. Health and Medical Assistance -- 2.2. Education and Access to Information -- 2.3. Income and Profession -- 2.4. Security -- 2.5. Environment, Physical Space and Housing -- 2.6. Leisure and Free Time -- 2.7. Family and Social Network -- 2.8. Life Perspectives and Satisfaction with Their Own Lives -- 2.9. Spirituality and Personal Beliefs -- 3. The Current Picture of Humanitarian Aid -- Conclusion -- References -- Annex 1. Table Summarizing Life Conditions before and Just after the Earthquake -- Annex 2. Glossary -- Biographical Sketches.

Humanitarianism: Keywords is a comprehensive dictionary designed as a compass for navigating the conceptual universe of humanitarianism. It is an intuitive toolkit to map contemporary humanitarianism and to explore its current and future articulations. The dictionary serves a broad readership of practitioners, students, and researchers by providing informed access to the extensive humanitarian vocabulary.

Humanitarianism: Keywords is a comprehensive dictionary designed as a compass for navigating the conceptual universe of humanitarianism. It is an intuitive toolkit to map contemporary humanitarianism and to explore its current and future articulations. The dictionary serves a broad readership of practitioners, students, and researchers by providing informed access to the extensive humanitarian vocabulary. Readership: Students and researchers of humanitarian studies, and all interested in post-war and post-disaster relief, emergency, crisis, and international interventions. Also of interest for practitioners and workers of NGOs and humanitarian organizations.

The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades---to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the Left's critiques but incorporated them for capitalist expansion. Venture funds expose their ties to slavery and pledge to invest in racial equity. Banks pitch microloans as a path to indigenous self-determination. Fair-trade brands narrate consumption as an act of feminist solidarity with women artisans in the global South. In Capitalist Humanitarianism Lucia Hulsether examines these projects and the contexts of their emergence. Blending historical and ethnographic styles, and traversing intimate and global scales, Hulsether tracks how neoliberal self-critique creates new institutional hegemonies that, in turn, reproduce racial and neocolonial dispossession. From the archives of Christian fair traders to luxury social entrepreneurship conferences, from US finance offices to Guatemalan towns flooded with their loan products, from service economy desperation to the internal contradictions of social movements, Hulsether argues that capitalist humanitarian projects are fueled as much by a profit motive as by a hope that racial capitalism can redeem the losses that accumulate in its wake

There is as yet no collection that examines the longer histories of global humanitarianism and media culture, which would enable readers to consider the various continuities, as well as the differences, characterising the mass media's relationship with international humanitarian crisis and relief. This collection examines this relationship from the 1950s to the present, from Marshall Plan documentaries and the promotion of the Peace Corps in the decades following the Second World War to the role of Facebook in the work of NGOS and the media's response to the current refugee crisis. The majority of the contributors to the proposed volume are specialists in the fields of media, film and cultural studies and approach the question of humanitarianism-media culture relations from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives, and draw on other disciplines such as sociology, journalism, politics and anthropology.

Introduction : global humanitarianism and media culture -- Histories of humanity. "United Nations children" in Hollywood cinema : juvenile actors and humanitarian sentiment in the 1940s / Michael Lawrence -- Classical antiquity as a humanitarian narrative : the Marshall Plan films about Greece / Katerina Loukopoulou -- "The most potent public relations tool ever devised"? : the United States Peace Corps in the early 1960s / Agnieszka Sobocinska -- Narratives of humanitarianism. The naive republic of aid : grassroots exceptionalism in humanitarian memoir / Emily Bauman -- "Telegenically dead Palestinians" : cinema, news media and perception management of the Gaza conflicts / Sohini Chaudhuri -- The unknown famine : television and the politics of British humanitarianism / Andrew Jones -- Reporting refuge and risk. European borderscapes : the management of migration between care and control / Pierluigi Musarò -- The role of aid agencies in the media portrayl of children in Za'atari Refuge Camp / Toby Fricker -- Selling the lottery to earn salvation : journalism practice, risk and humanitarian communication / Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Gabriel Andrade -- Capitalism, consumption and charity. Consumption, global humanitarianism and childhood / Laura Suski -- Liking visuals and visually liking on Facebook : from starving children to satirical saviours / Rachel Tavernor -- The corporate karma carnival : offline and online games, branding and humanitarianism at the Roskilde Festival / Lene Bull Christiansen and Mette Fog Olwig.

Humanitarianism as a moral concept and an organized practice has become a major factor in world society. It channels an enormous amount of resources and serves as an argument for different kinds of interference into the "internal affairs" of countries and regions. At the same time, and for these very reasons, it is an ideal testing ground for successful and unsuccessful cooperation across borders. Humanitarianism and the Challenges of Cooperation examines the multiple humanitarianisms of today as a testing ground for new ways of global cooperation. General trends in the contemporary transformation of humanitarianism are studied and individual cases of how humanitarian actors cooperate with others on the ground are investigated. This book offers a highly innovative, empirically informed account of global humanitarianism from the point of view of cooperation research in which internationally renowned contributors analyse broad trends and present case studies based on meticulous fieldwork. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers in the areas of political science, international relations and humanitarianism.

Accountability / Bayard Roberts -- Humanitarian advocacy / Duncan Green -- Arenas / Dorothea Hilhorst -- Camps / Sarah-Jane Cooper-Knock and Katy Long -- Communication / Shani Orgad -- Epidemics / Gillian McKay and Melissa Parker -- Faith, aid and global governance / Jonathan C. Agensky -- Famine / Alex de Waal -- Genocide / Tim Allen and Elizabeth Storer -- Humanitarianism / Tim Allen -- Humanity / Henry Radice -- International humanitarian law / Rebecca Sutton and Orly Stern -- Intervention / Chris Brown -- Justice / Anna Macdonald -- Medical humanitarianism / Tim Allen -- Memory / Rachel Ibreck -- Migration / Ruben Andersson -- Post-humanitarianism / Lilie Chouliaraki -- Prevention : the challenge of theory and practice / Tatiana Carayannis and Sabrina Stein -- Resources / Koen Vlassenroot, Jeroen Cuvelier and Bruno De Cordier -- Responsibility to protect / Kirsten Ainley -- Terrorism / Stuart Gordon -- Violence against women and girls / Christine Chinkin -- War and humanitarianism / Mary Kaldor.

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction: Citizen humanitarianism at European borders -- PART I: Resisting or becoming "the system"? Humanitarianism between citizenship and the NGO world -- 1. Filling the gaps: Citizen humanitarianism in the context of crisis, abandonment and criminalization -- 2. A community centre in a humanitarian context: The professionalization of a grassroots initiative in Istanbul, Turkey -- 3. Citizen humanitarianism and local responses to the migration crisis in Serbia -- 4. "They just come and try to help": Exploring the prioritization of downstream accountability in citizen-led humanitarianism in Calais -- PART II: Criminalization and violence against citizen humanitarianism -- 5. Melilla: Fight and survival of activist humanitarianism -- 6. A more subversive humanitarianism?: The political strategies of grassroots initiatives supporting illegalized migrants -- 7. Beyond borders: Transnational turn of Russian refugee aid -- PART III: The multifaceted politics of citizenship humanitarianism -- 8. Contesting humanitarianism through solidarity and hospitality in the French-Italian borderscape -- 9. Proximity and protest: Citizen demonstrations against anti-immigrant policies in eastern Sicily -- 10. Memorial tourism and citizen humanitarianism: Volunteers' civil pilgrimage to the "life jacket graveyard" of Lesvos, Greece -- 11. Approaching biographical life: Grassroots humanitarianism in Europe -- Conclusion: Citizen humanitarianism beyond the crisis -- Index.

This volume addresses the humanitarian identity crisis, including humanitarianism's relationship to accountability, great powers, privatization and corporate philanthropy, warlords, and the ethical evaluations that inform life-and-death decision making during and after emergencies

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Bringing Life into Relief: Comparative Ethnographies of Humanitarian Practice -- Chapter 1. Dignity Under Extreme Duress: The Moral and Emotional Landscape of Local Humanitarian Workers in the Afghan-Pakistan Border Areas -- Chapter 2. Compassion and Care at the Limits of Privilege: Haitian Doctors amid the Influx of Foreign Humanitarian Volunteers -- Chapter 3. Trust and Caregiving During a UNICEF-Funded Relief Operation in the Somali Region of Ethiopia -- Chapter 4. Evidence and Narratives: Recounting Lethal Violence in Darfur, Sudan -- Chapter 5. Life Beyond the Bubbles: Cognitive Dissonance and Humanitarian Impunity in Northern Uganda -- Chapter 6. Staging a ''Medical Coup''? Médecins Sans Frontières and the 2005 Food Crisis in Niger -- Chapter 7. What Happens When MSF Leaves? Humanitarian Departure and Medical Sovereignty in Postconflict Liberia -- Chapter 8. Humanitarianism and ''Mobile Sovereignty'' in Strong State Settings: Reflections on Medical Humanitarianism in Aceh, Indonesia -- Chapter 9. The British Military Medical Services and Contested Humanitarianism -- Chapter 10. Anthropology and Medical Humanitarianism in the Age of Global Health Education -- Chapter 11. The Creation of Emergency and Afterlife of Intervention: Reflections on Guinea Worm Eradication in Ghana -- Chapter 12. Medical NGOs in Strong States: Working the Margins of the Israeli Medical Bureaucracy -- Conclusion. A Measured Good -- List of Contributors -- Index

This book challenges the taken-for-granted status of organizations such as the Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontieres, by problematizing humanitarianism. It is a unique contribution to organization studies, re-reading humanitarianism to show that humanitarian organizations essentially serve as global disciplinary institutions