UID:
almahu_9949383742002882
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 260 pages).
ISBN:
9781003006954
,
1003006957
,
1000762238
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9781000762594
,
1000762599
,
9781000762235
Series Statement:
Routledge humanitarian studies
Content:
"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 in the first place. The book identifies four basic elements of needs: as a concept, as a system of classification and triage, as a form of material apparatus, and as a codified standard. Drawing on a range of archival sources ranging from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), and the Sphere Project, the book traces the concept of needs from their emergence in the 1960s right through to the modern day, and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's call for "evidence-based humanitarianism". Finally the book assesses how the international governmentality of needs played out in a recent humanitarian crisis, drawing on detailed ethnographic research of Central African refugees in the Cameroonian borderland in 2014-2016. This important historical enquiry into the universal nature of human suffering will be an important read for humanitarian researchers and practitioners, as well as readers with an interest in international history and development"--
Note:
Introduction Minimal humanity - the commensuration of human suffering on a global scale -- Concepts Elements of a genealogy of needology -- Classifications UNHCR and the legibility of refugees in Central Africa -- Artifacts Malnutrition, MUAC, and the materialization of anthropometry -- Standards The Sphere Project and the universalization of the vital minimum after Goma -- Registration Refugees and the emergence of the humanitarian field in Cameroon -- Vulnerability Impartial algorithms and analog malnutrition -- Conclusion Infrastructure of commensurability.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Glasman, Joël, 1979- Humanitarianism and the quantification of human needs Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020. ISBN 9780367222154
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003006954
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003006954
