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While most people would not consider sponsoring an orphan's
education to be in the same category as international humanitarian
aid, both acts are linked by the desire to give. Many studies focus
on the outcomes of humanitarian work, but the impulses that inspire
people to engage in the first place receive less attention.
Disquieting Gifts takes a close look at people working on
humanitarian projects in New Delhi to explore why they engage in
philanthropic work, what humanitarianism looks like to them, and
the ethical and political tangles they encounter. Motivated by
debates surrounding Marcel Mauss's The Gift, Bornstein investigates
specific cases of people engaged in humanitarian work to reveal
different perceptions of assistance to strangers versus assistance
to kin, how the impulse to give to others in distress is tempered
by its regulation, suspicions about recipient suitability, and why
the figure of the orphan is so valuable in humanitarian discourse.
The book also focuses on vital humanitarian efforts that often go
undocumented and ignored and explores the role of empathy in
humanitarian work.
While most people would not consider sponsoring an orphan's
education to be in the same category as international humanitarian
aid, both acts are linked by the desire to give. Many studies focus
on the outcomes of humanitarian work, but the impulses that inspire
people to engage in the first place receive less attention.
Disquieting Gifts takes a close look at people working on
humanitarian projects in New Delhi to explore why they engage in
philanthropic work, what humanitarianism looks like to them, and
the ethical and political tangles they encounter. Motivated by
debates surrounding Marcel Mauss's The Gift, Bornstein investigates
specific cases of people engaged in humanitarian work to reveal
different perceptions of assistance to strangers versus assistance
to kin, how the impulse to give to others in distress is tempered
by its regulation, suspicions about recipient suitability, and why
the figure of the orphan is so valuable in humanitarian discourse.
The book also focuses on vital humanitarian efforts that often go
undocumented and ignored and explores the role of empathy in
humanitarian work.
Religious NGOs are important sources of humanitarian aid in Africa,
entering where the welfare programs of weakened states fail to
provide basic services. As collaborators and critics of African
states, religious NGOs occupy an important structural and
ideological position. They also, however, illustrate a key
irony-how economic development, a symbol of science, progress, and
this-worldly material improvement, borrows heavily from
other-worldly faith. Through a study of two transnational NGOs in
Zimbabwe, this book offers a nuanced depiction of development as
both liberatory and limiting. Humanitarian effort is not a hopeless
task, but behind the liberatory potential of Christian development
lurks the sad irony that change can bring its own disappointments.
While rapt attention has been given to the supposed role of NGOs in
democratizing Africa, few studies engage with the ground
operations. Questioning the assumption that economic development is
a move away from religious mysticism toward the scientific promise
of progress, the author offers a remarkable account of development
that is neither defeatist nor comforting.
Suffering and charity have a long history. Both human sorrows and
attempted remedies were familiar features of life in earlier eras
and religious traditions, however, during the final decades of the
twentieth century, natural disasters and civilian casualties of war
transformed into "humanitarian crises." In these recurring dramas
presented by international media, an extensive network of
interstate entities and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
supplies assistance to victims. The contemporary aid world is a
mosaic of aid sectors, each skewed slightly toward a particular
aspect of need and action. The development sector focuses on
alleviating poverty, while the human rights sector aims to rectify
identifiable wrongs. Humanitarianism directly addresses physical
and psychological suffering. The contributors to Forces of
Compassion examine this sector through the lens of anthropology,
looking at dominant practices, tensions, and beliefs.
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