Negotiating relief : the politics of humanitarian space /
While humanitarianism is unquestionably a fast-growing subject of practitioner and scholarly engagement, much discussion about it is predicated on a dangerous dichotomy between 'aid givers' and 'relief takers' that largely misrepresents the negotiated nature of the humanitarian e...
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: The politics of humanitarian space / Thomas G. Weiss
- Introduction: Humanitarian puzzles / Michele Acuto
- Is humanitarian space shrinking? / Don Hubert and Cynthia Brassard-Boudreau
- The humanitarian system : how does it affect humanitarian space? / Sarah Collinson
- Humanitarianism, perceptions and power / Antonio Donini
- Imagining catastrophe : the politics of representing humanitarian crises / Roland Bleiker, Emma Hutchinson and David Campbell
- Humanitarian space in Darfur : caught between the local and the global / Kurt Mills
- World politics and humanitarianism in Kosovo : a symbiotic relationship? / Andrea Edoardo Varisco
- Shifting sands : humanitarian relief in Aceh / Paul Zeccola
- Spotlights and mirrors : media and the humanitarian community in Haiti's disaster / Mark Schuller
- Leap of faith : negotiating humanitarian access in Somalia's 2011 famine / Ken Menkhaus
- Ethical complexity and perplexity : humanitarian actors, disasters and space / Heather M. Roff
- The Responsibility to Protect : opening humanitarian spaces? / Alex J. Bellamy
- Humanitarianism, intervention and the UN : a work in progress / Conor Foley
- The dilemmas of psychosocial interventions / Phil O'Keefe, Janaka Jayawickrama and Geoff O'Brien
- The impact of criminalising the enemy on humanitarianism / Fabrice Weissman
- For humanity or for the umma? Ideologies of humanitarianism among transnational Islamic aid NGOs / Marie Juul Petersen
- Humanitarians and diplomats : what connections? / William Maley
- From arrow to path : international relations theory and the humanitarian space / Mathew J. Davies
- Intersecting disasters : eschewing models, embracing geopolitics / Jennifer Hyndman
- Humanitarianism, development and the liberal peace / David Chandler
- Humanitarian diplomacy : the ICRC experience / Fiona Terry
- On "opening" humanitarian diplomacy : a dialectic space / Michele Acuto.