Since the mid-1990s, Western Tanzania has hosted hundreds of
thousands of refugees living in massive refugee camps sustained by
millions of dollars of humanitarian aid. This title explores the
anomalous spaces and practices generated by this influx of people
and humanitarian aid, and shows how they have transformed the
politics and governmental practices of the region. In more than
fourteen months of qualitative and quantitative research, the
author found that the refugee influx did not produce the
deleterious economic and environmental effects often assumed.
Outside the camps, a Tanzanian population long at the margins of
their own country's economics and politics became incorporated into
systems of power and authority which linked them to Dar es Salaam,
central Africa, Geneva, Washington, and the grain farmers of the
American Midwest. Amidst the violence and conflict surrounding the
camps, they became 'Tanzanian' as never before by exalting the
territory, the nation, and a political leadership that delegated
responsibility for security and services to others - the United
Nations, nongovernmental organisations, and the citizenry. The
result was a hybridised regime of power shaped by history,
contingency, self-interest and perception - a political form that
questions models of rural transformation and the functional basis
of the modern nation-state. The Humanitarian Hangover is a
resource, not only for scholars of displacement but also for
political scientists and sociologists concerned with how
displacement and humanitarianism can serve as primary catalysts for
social, political and economic change.
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