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Australia's Foreign Aid Dilemma
Humanitarian aspirations confront democratic legitimacy
Av Jack Corbett
Häftad, 2019
750 kr
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The Australian aid program faces a fundamental dilemma: how, in the absence of deep popular support, should it generate the political legitimacy required to safeguard its budget and administering institution? Australia’s Foreign Aid Dilemma tells the story of the actors who have grappled with this …
Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs
Minimal Humanity
Av Joël Glasman, Joanna Paliszkiewicz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2744 kr
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This book provides a historical inquiry into the quantification of needs in humanitarian assistance. Needs are increasingly seen as the lowest common denominator of humanity. Standard definitions of basic needs, however, set a minimalist version of humanity – both in the sense that they are narrow …
Anti-genocide Activists and the Responsibility to Protect
Häftad, 2019
839 kr
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Although the Genocide Convention was already adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1945, it was only in the late 1990s that groups of activists emerged calling for military interventions to halt mass atrocities. The question of who these anti-genocide activists are and what motivates them to call …
Humanitarian Fix
Navigating Civilian Protection in Contemporary Wars
Av Joe Cropp
Inbunden, 2021
2311 kr
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This book investigates how humanitarians balance the laws and principles of civilian protection with the realities of contemporary warzones, where non-state armed actors assert cultural, political and religious traditions that are often at odds with official frameworks.This book argues that …
Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs
Minimal Humanity
Av Joël Glasman, Joanna Paliszkiewicz m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
720 kr
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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 …
Vulnerable Humanitarian
Ending Burnout Culture in the Aid Sector
Häftad, 2021
545 kr
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The Vulnerable Humanitarian challenges the prevalence of stress and burnout culture within the aid sector, laying bare the issues of power, agency, security and wellbeing that continue to trouble organisations and staff. Engaging and insightful, this book illustrates the problematic and unrealistic …
Vulnerable Humanitarian
Ending Burnout Culture in the Aid Sector
Inbunden, 2021
2441 kr
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The Vulnerable Humanitarian challenges the prevalence of stress and burnout culture within the aid sector, laying bare the issues of power, agency, security and wellbeing that continue to trouble organisations and staff. Engaging and insightful, this book illustrates the problematic and unrealistic …
Crisis Management Beyond the Humanitarian-Development Nexus
Av Atsushi Hanatani, Oscar A. Gómez m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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In addressing humanitarian crises, the international community has long understood the need to extend beyond providing immediate relief, and to engage with long-term recovery activities and the prevention of similar crises in the future. However, this continuum from short-term relief to …
Citizen Humanitarianism at European Borders
Av Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert, Elisa Pascucci
Inbunden, 2021
2311 kr
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At a time of escalating conflict between states and NGOs engaged in migrant search and rescue operations across the Mediterranean, this book explores the emerging trend of citizen-led forms of helping others at the borders of Europe.In recent years, Europe’s borders have become new sites of …
Citizen Humanitarianism at European Borders
Av Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert, Elisa Pascucci
Häftad, 2023
636 kr
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At a time of escalating conflict between states and NGOs engaged in migrant search and rescue operations across the Mediterranean, this book explores the emerging trend of citizen-led forms of helping others at the borders of Europe.In recent years, Europe’s borders have become new sites of …
Humanitarian Fix
Navigating Civilian Protection in Contemporary Wars
Av Joe Cropp
Häftad, 2023
596 kr
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This book investigates how humanitarians balance the laws and principles of civilian protection with the realities of contemporary warzones, where non-state armed actors assert cultural, political and religious traditions that are often at odds with official frameworks.This book argues that …
Urban Poverty in the Wake of Environmental Disaster
Rehabilitation, Resilience and Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)
Av Maria Ela Atienza, Pauline Eadie m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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This book investigates the best strategies for poverty alleviation in post-disaster urban environments, and the conditions necessary for the success and scaling up of these strategies. Using the case study of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in the Philippines, the strongest typhoon ever to make landfall, …
Humanitarian Machine
Reflections from Practice
Av Diego Fernandez Otegui, Daryl Yoder-Bontrager
Häftad, 2021
575 kr
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As the world reels from the impact of a global pandemic and increasing intensity of climate-caused hazards, the humanitarian sector has never been more relevant. But providing aid to those affected by disasters and crises is more complex than ever.In The Humanitarian Machine aid workers reflect on …
Humanitarian Machine
Reflections from Practice
Av Diego Fernandez Otegui, Daryl Yoder-Bontrager
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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As the world reels from the impact of a global pandemic and increasing intensity of climate-caused hazards, the humanitarian sector has never been more relevant. But providing aid to those affected by disasters and crises is more complex than ever.In The Humanitarian Machine aid workers reflect on …
Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis
Displacement, Gender and Social Inequalities
Av Nicola Jones, Kate Pincock m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
619 kr
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Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis investigates the experiences of adolescents displaced by humanitarian crisis.The world is currently seeing unprecedented levels of mass displacement, and almost half of the world’s 70 million displaced people are children and adolescents under the age of 18. …
Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis
Displacement, Gender and Social Inequalities
Av Nicola Jones, Kate Pincock m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis investigates the experiences of adolescents displaced by humanitarian crisis.The world is currently seeing unprecedented levels of mass displacement, and almost half of the world’s 70 million displaced people are children and adolescents under the age of 18. …
Production of Disaster and Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Disaster Industrial Complex
Av Juliana Svistova, Loretta Pyles
Häftad, 2019
691 kr
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Natural disasters have long been seen as naturally generated events, but as scientific, technological, and social knowledge of disasters has become more sophisticated, the part that people and systems play in disaster events has become more apparent. Production of Disaster and Recovery in …
Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises
Everyday Politics of Crisis Response
Inbunden, 2013
2744 kr
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Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse – are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis and normality. What …
Disaster, Conflict and Society in Crises
Everyday Politics of Crisis Response
Häftad, 2013
691 kr
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Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse – are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. In reality, there are many continuities and discontinuities between crisis and normality. What …
Human Security and Natural Disasters
Av Christopher Hobson, Paul Bacon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2512 kr
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"Human security" is an approach that rejects the traditional prioritization of state security, and instead identifies the individual as the primary referent of security. It offers a way of broadening our perspective, and recognizing that the most pressing threats to individuals do not come from …
Paradoxes of Aid Work
Passionate Professionals
Av Silke Roth
Inbunden, 2015
2512 kr
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This book explores what attracts people to aidwork and to what extent the promises of aidwork are fulfilled. 'Aidland' is a highly complex and heterogeneous context which includes many different occupations, forms of employment and organizations. Analysing the processes that lead to the involvement …
Natural Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability
Floods and slum life in Indonesia
Häftad, 2017
822 kr
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Different people handle risk in different ways. The current lack of understanding about this heterogeneity in risk behaviour makes it difficult to intervene effectively in risk-prone communities.Natural Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability offers a unique insight in the everyday life of a group of …
UNHCR and the Struggle for Accountability
Technology, law and results-based management
Av Kristin Sandvik, Katja Jacobsen
Häftad, 2017
757 kr
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Despite the key importance of accountability for the legitimacy of humanitarian action, inadequate academic attention has been given to how the concept of accountability is evolving within the specific branches of the humanitarian enterprise. Up to now, there exists no comprehensive account of what …
Disaster Public Health and Older People
Inbunden, 2019
2586 kr
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Disaster Public Health and Older People introduces professionals, students and fieldworkers to the science and art of promoting health and well-being among older people in the context of humanitarian emergencies, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income country settings. Older people face …
Disaster Public Health and Older People
Häftad, 2019
742 kr
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Disaster Public Health and Older People introduces professionals, students and fieldworkers to the science and art of promoting health and well-being among older people in the context of humanitarian emergencies, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income country settings. Older people face …
New Humanitarians in International Practice
Emerging actors and contested principles
Av Zeynep Sezgin, Dennis Dijkzeul
Häftad, 2017
793 kr
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As humanitarian needs continue to grow rapidly, humanitarian action has become more contested, with new actors entering the field to address unmet needs, but also challenging long-held principles and precepts.This volume provides detailed empirical comparisons between emerging and traditional …
Child Rights in Humanitarian Crisis
Improving Action and Response
Av Rigmor Argren, Jessica Jonsson
Häftad, 2023
633 kr
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This book demonstrates how a focus on children’s rights can help practitioners to safeguard children during humanitarian crisis. Child Rights in Humanitarian Crisis focuses on understanding and advancing child rights through practical applications of a child rights perspective in crisis response. …
Child Rights in Humanitarian Crisis
Improving Action and Response
Av Rigmor Argren, Jessica Jonsson
Inbunden, 2023
2512 kr
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This book demonstrates how a focus on children’s rights can help practitioners to safeguard children during humanitarian crisis. Child Rights in Humanitarian Crisis focuses on understanding and advancing child rights through practical applications of a child rights perspective in crisis response. …
Humanitarian Parent
Balancing Work and Family in the Aid Sector
Inbunden, 2023
2512 kr
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Aid sector staff work in some of the world’s most challenging environments, from conflict zones to sites of natural disaster and refugee camps. For a long time, the aid worker was typified by the lone white male, flying from place to place and seeing his family during the holidays. But now, as the …
Humanitarian Parent
Balancing Work and Family in the Aid Sector
Häftad, 2023
589 kr
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Aid sector staff work in some of the world’s most challenging environments, from conflict zones to sites of natural disaster and refugee camps. For a long time, the aid worker was typified by the lone white male, flying from place to place and seeing his family during the holidays. But now, as the …
