Spaces of Aid : How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism
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| Title: | Spaces of Aid : How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism |
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| Description: | Aid workers commonly bemoan that the experience of working in the field sits uneasily with the goals they've signed up to: visiting project sites in air-conditioned Land Cruisers while the intended beneficiaries walk barefoot through the heat, or checking emails from within gated compounds while surrounding communities have no running water.Spaces of Aid provides the first book-length analysis of what has colloquially been referred to as Aid Land. It explores in depth two high-profile case studies, the Aceh tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, in order to uncover a fascinating history of the objects and spaces that have become an endemic yet unexamined part of the delivery of humanitarian assistance. |
| Authors: | Lisa Smirl |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Disaster relief, International cooperation, Humanitarian assistance--Management |
| Categories: | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Aid workers commonly bemoan that the experience of working in the field sits uneasily with the goals they've signed up to: visiting project sites in air-conditioned Land Cruisers while the intended beneficiaries walk barefoot through the heat, or checking emails from within gated compounds while surrounding communities have no running water.Spaces of Aid provides the first book-length analysis of what has colloquially been referred to as Aid Land. It explores in depth two high-profile case studies, the Aceh tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, in order to uncover a fascinating history of the objects and spaces that have become an endemic yet unexamined part of the delivery of humanitarian assistance. |
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| ISBN: | 9781783603503 9781783603497 9781783603510 9781783603527 9781783603534 |
