This is an innovative new history of famine relief and
humanitarianism. The authors apply a moral economy approach to shed
new light on the forces and ideas that motivated and shaped
humanitarian aid during the Great Irish Famine, the famine of
1921-1922 in Soviet Russia and the Ukraine, and the 1980s Ethiopian
famine. They place these episodes within a distinctive
periodisation of humanitarianism which emphasises the correlations
with politico-economic regimes: the time of elitist laissez-faire
liberalism in the nineteenth century as one of ad hoc
humanitarianism; that of Taylorism and mass society from
c.1900-1970 as one of organised humanitarianism; and the blend of
individualised post-material lifestyles and neoliberal public
management since 1970 as one of expressive humanitarianism. The
book as a whole shifts the focus of the history of humanitarianism
from the imperatives of crisis management to the pragmatic
mechanisms of fundraising, relief efforts on the ground, and
finance. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge
Core.
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