| Title : | Famine Crimes : Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa |
| Material Type: | printed text |
| Authors: | Alexander de Waal, Author |
| Publisher: | Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press |
| Publication Date: | 1997 |
| Pagination: | 238 p. |
| Size: | 20 cm |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-85255-810-2 |
| General note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-232)
Includes bibliographical index (p. 233-238) |
| Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
| Descriptors: | Disaster relief - Africa
Political aspects - Africa
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| Class number: | 363.348 |
| Abstract: | This book has been some six years in the writing. It began chiefly with a focus on the way in which respect for liberal civil and political rights could help deliver freedom from famine, and has since grown vastly in its empirical and theoretical scope. A focus on human rights as such has shifted to the political processes that can establish and guarantee them. The initial agenda was tied, implicitly at least, to widening the scope for humanitarian and human rights organizations to intrude (in certain ways) into the affairs of African countries. This has given way to a deeper analysis of the humanitarian international' – the transnational elite of relief workers, aid-dispensing civil servants, academics, journalists and others, and the institutions they work for - and its involvement in famines in Africa. The emergent critique of human rights organizations has yet to be written. Meanwhile, intermediate versions of the critique of humanitarianism, especially the paper. Humanitarian Unbound (African Rights, 1994a), have become widely known. For understandable reasons, there has been most interest in the conclusions of the analysis the suggestion that international humanitarianism is an obstacle rather than an aid to conquering famine in Africa - rather than in the course of the argument itself. |
| Contents note: | The Conquest of Famine in South Africa; A Fragile Obligation in Famine Relief; Neo-Liberalism & Adjustment; The Humanitarian International; Privatizing Famine; Revolution, War-Famine & Two Models of Relief; A New Humanitarian Dispensation; Somalia 1993 & Rwanda 1994; The Fundraisers' Catastrophe; |
| Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=19848 |
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