Götz, N;
Brewis, G;
Werther, S;
(2020)
Humanitarianism in the Modern World: The Moral Economy of Famine Relief.
[Book].
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.
Preview |
Text
Humanitarianism_in_the_Modern_World.pdf - Published Version Download (12MB) | Preview |
Abstract
This is an innovative new history of famine relief and humanitarianism. The authors apply a moral economy approach to shed new light on the forces and ideas that motivated and shaped humanitarian aid during the Great Irish Famine, the famine of 1921-1922 in Soviet Russia and the Ukraine, and the 1980s Ethiopian famine. They place these episodes within a distinctive periodisation of humanitarianism which emphasises the correlations with politico-economic regimes: the time of elitist laissez-faire liberalism in the nineteenth century as one of ad hoc humanitarianism; that of Taylorism and mass society from c.1900-1970 as one of organised humanitarianism; and the blend of individualised post-material lifestyles and neoliberal public management since 1970 as one of expressive humanitarianism. The book as a whole shifts the focus of the history of humanitarianism from the imperatives of crisis management to the pragmatic mechanisms of fundraising, relief efforts on the ground, and finance.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Humanitarianism in the Modern World: The Moral Economy of Famine Relief |
| ISBN-13: | 9781108655903 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108655903 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108655903 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | An online version of this work is published at doi.org/10.1017/9781108655903 under a Creative Commons Open Access license CC-BY-NC 4.0 which permits re-use, distribution and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes providing appropriate credit to the original work is given and any changes made are indicated. To view a copy of this license visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10110004 |
Archive Staff Only
 |
View Item |
