书目名称 | Who Gives to Whom? Reframing Africa in the Humanitarian Imaginary |
编辑 | Cilas Kemedjio,Cecelia Lynch |
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概述 | Takes up Ngūgī wa Thiong’o’s challenge to see how Africa gives to the west instead of the reverse.Unpacks critical legacies from colonial and missionary genealogies to nongovernmental organizations.Ar |
丛书名称 | Culture and Religion in International Relations |
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描述 | .In this innovative volume, experts from international relations, anthropology, sociology, global public health, postcolonial African literature, and gender studies, take up Ngūgī wa Thiong’o’s challenge to see how Africa gives to the west instead of the reverse. Humanitarian assumptions are challenged by unpacking critical legacies from colonial and missionary genealogies to today’s global networks of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). .Who Gives to Whom: Reframing Africa in the Humanitarian Imaginary .is a decolonial gesture that builds on Ngūgī’s work as well as that of pan-Africanist and intersectional feminist scholars. Contributions range from assessing the impact of historical legacies of colonialism on gender, religious/secular attempts at “saving” Africans to (South) African unrealized project to reconfigure foreign policy frameworks shaped by apartheid. Case studies of “silver bullet” solutions focus on the incorporation of women in peacebuilding, microfinance, and e-waste disposal, to argue that humanitarian interventions continue to mask ongoing forms of despoiling African well-being while shortchanging intersectional African forms of agency. ..“Chapter 1.” is ava |
出版日期 | Book 2024 |
关键词 | global studies; African studies; postcolonial studies; colonialism; humanitarianism; aid and development; |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46553-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-46555-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-46553-6Series ISSN 2945-7831 Series E-ISSN 2945-784X |
issn_series | 2945-7831 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |