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Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs - Minimal Humanity (Paperback)
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Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs - Minimal Humanity (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Humanitarian Studies
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This book provides the first historical inquiry into the
quantification of needs in humanitarian assistance. Ultimately the
book argues that we cannot understand the global humanitarian aid
movement, if we do not understand how humanitarian agencies made
human suffering commensurable across borders in the first place.
The book identifies four basic elements of needs: as a concept, as
a system of classification and triage, as a form of material
apparatus, and as a codified standard. Drawing on a range of
archival sources ranging from the United Nations Refugee Agency
(UNHCR), Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF), and the Sphere Project,
the book traces the concept of needs from their emergence in the
1960s right through to the modern day, and United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's call for "evidence-based
humanitarianism". Finally the book assesses how the international
governmentality of needs played out in a recent humanitarian
crisis, drawing on detailed ethnographic research of Central
African refugees in the Cameroonian borderland in 2014-2016. This
important historical enquiry into the universal nature of human
suffering will be an important read for humanitarian researchers
and practitioners, as well as readers with an interest in
international history and development.
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