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The Beneficiary (Paperback)
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The Beneficiary (Paperback)
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From iPhones and clothing to jewelry and food, the products those
of us in the developed world consume and enjoy exist only through
the labor and suffering of countless others. In his new book Bruce
Robbins examines the implications of this dynamic for
humanitarianism and social justice. He locates the figure of the
"beneficiary" in the history of humanitarian thought, which asks
the prosperous to help the poor without requiring them to recognize
their causal role in the creation of the abhorrent conditions they
seek to remedy. Tracing how the beneficiary has manifested itself
in the work of George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Jamaica Kincaid,
Naomi Klein, and others, Robbins uncovers a hidden tradition of
economic cosmopolitanism. There are no easy answers to the question
of how to confront systematic inequality on a global scale. But the
first step, Robbins suggests, is to acknowledge that we are, in
fact, beneficiaries.
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