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Humanitarian extractivism
The digital transformation of aid
By Kristin Bergtora Sandvik
This book investigates the digital transformation of aid as a form of humanitarian extractivism. It focuses on how practices of data extraction shift power towards states, the private sector and ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7335-5
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£25.00
Buy NowEveryday humanitarianism in Cambodia
Challenging scales and making relations
By Anne-Meike Fechter
Faced with the scale of global challenges such as poverty and inequality, one question is where to start. Humanitarian efforts can only ever have limited reach. Among all of human suffering, whom ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7210-5
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£85.00
Buy NowHumanitarianism and the Greater War, 1914-24
Edited by Elisabeth Piller and Neville Wylie
This book provides fresh perspectives on a key period in the history of humanitarianism. Drawing on economic, cultural, social and diplomatic perspectives, it explores the scale and meaning of ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7324-9
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£90.00
Buy NowReconstructing lives
Victims of war in the Middle East and Médecins Sans Frontières
By Vanja Kovacic
This book attempts to establish a more holistic approach to the rehabilitation of war-injured civilians, one that adjusts to the patients' long-term needs. Kovacic not only offers an insight into ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6161-1
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£85.00
Buy NowThe Red Cross Movement
Myths, practices and turning points
Edited by Neville Wylie, Melanie Oppenheimer and James Crossland
For over 150 years, the Red Cross has brought succour to the world's needy, from sick and wounded soldiers on the battlefield, to political detainees, to those suffering the effects of natural ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3351-9
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£90.00
Buy NowThe NGO CARE and food aid from America, 1945-80
'Showered with kindness'?
By Heike Wieters
This book provides a historical account of the NGO CARE as one of the largest humanitarian NGOs worldwide from 1945 to 1980. Readers interested in international relations and humanitarian hunger ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2972-7
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£31.00
Buy NowA history of humanitarianism, 1755-1989
In the name of others
By Silvia Salvatici
The book traces the history of international humanitarianism from the anti-slavery movement to the end of the cold war. It is based on an extensive survey of the international literature and is ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2016-8
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£22.50
Buy NowHumanitarian intervention in the long nineteenth century
Setting the precedent
By Alexis Heraclides and Ada Dialla
This book is a comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century. Through four case studies, it sheds new light on the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3382-3
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£26.00
Buy NowIslamic charities and Islamic humanism in troubled times
By Jonathan Benthall
This book is the fruit of twenty years' reflection on Islamic charities, both practically and as a key to understand the crisis in contemporary Islam. On the one hand Islam is undervalued as a ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-9972-4
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£18.99
Buy NowHumanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings
The Rwandan Experience
By Jean-Hervé Bradol and Marc Le Pape
Throughout the 1990s, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was forced to face the challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1551-5
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