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In Global Humanitarianism: NGOs and the Crafting of Community,
author Rob DeChaine explores a narrative common to the
nongovernmental organization community about the promise and
confusion of living together in post/modern times. Palpable in
their affective admixture of idealism, fear, hope, anger and
uncertainty, the protagonists of the story are humanitarian social
actors, engaged in a vivid social drama. Their audience, as made
apparent by DeChaine's excellent scholarship, is intimately engaged
in the drama as well. According to DeChaine, the action takes shape
in a multivocal polyphony of solidarity and, at times, cacophony of
protest and dissent, with actors mobilizing symbolic resources in
the service of uniting a public who would join with them in the
cause. A major source of the actors' labor is symbolic, consisting
in the successful rallying of formative energies in and around a
cluster of key related terms, words and phrases, in order to
dramatize and publicize the exigency of the crisis at hand.
DeChaine argues that crises are embodied in the form of an
intensifying hegemonic struggle over the articulation of
"community" in a global/ized world. The struggle brings into
tension local and global priorities, national governments and civil
society, and state-centered forms of identity and allegiance and a
broad-based vision of global citizenship and belonging. DeChaine
demonstrates that the crisis of community is one of the defining
themes of our contemporary era, one that we ignore at our peril.
This book is not only important to the NGO community but represents
cutting edge analysis in rhetoric, cultural studies, semiotics,
sociology and social organizations.
In Global Humanitarianism: NGOs and the Crafting of Community,
author Rob DeChaine explores a narrative common to the
nongovernmental organization community about the promise and
confusion of living together in post/modern times. Palpable in
their affective admixture of idealism, fear, hope, anger and
uncertainty, the protagonists of the story are humanitarian social
actors, engaged in a vivid social drama. Their audience, as made
apparent by DeChaine's excellent scholarship, is intimately engaged
in the drama as well. According to DeChaine, the action takes shape
in a multivocal polyphony of solidarity and, at times, cacophony of
protest and dissent, with actors mobilizing symbolic resources in
the service of uniting a public who would join with them in the
cause. A major source of the actors' labor is symbolic, consisting
in the successful rallying of formative energies in and around a
cluster of key related terms, words and phrases, in order to
dramatize and publicize the exigency of the crisis at hand.
DeChaine argues that crises are embodied in the form of an
intensifying hegemonic struggle over the articulation of
'community' in a global/ized world. The struggle brings into
tension local and global priorities, national governments and civil
society, and state-centered forms of identity and allegiance and a
broad-based vision of global citizenship and belonging. DeChaine
demonstrates that the crisis of community is one of the defining
themes of our contemporary era, one that we ignore at our peril.
This book is not only important to the NGO community but represents
cutting edge analysis in rhetoric, cultural studies, semiotics,
sociology and social organizations.
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