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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist
£16.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914420436 | ISBN 10: 1914420438
In 1993, Gareth Owen volunteered to go to Somalia with an Irish aid agency. Located in a remote desert outpost, he encountered the brutality of conflict and famine and experienced the hardships and struggles of an extraordinary race of desert warrior ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839765995 | ISBN 10: 1839765992
The seamy underside of humanitarianism. What does it mean when humanitarianism is the response to death, injury and suffering at the border? This book interrogates the politics of humanitarian responses to border violence and unequal mobilit ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783601226 | ISBN 10: 1783601221
The war on terror has politicised foreign aid as never before. Aid workers are being killed at an alarming rate and civilians in war-torn countries abandoned to their fate. From the ravaged streets of Mogadishu to the unending struggle in H ... more
View book details£18.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745332345 | ISBN 10: 074533234x
How do we understand the ethics of humanitarian intervention in today’s world? After Western intervention in Libya's civil war this new edition of A New Generation Draws the Line provides timely answers. In a new chapter on recent inter ... more
View book details£15.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848138360 | ISBN 10: 1848138369
Congo Masquerade is about mismanagement, hypocrisy and powerlessness in what has proved to be one of Africa's most troublesome and volatile states. In this scathing study of catastrophic aid inefficiency, Trefon argues that whilst others have examine ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780670919772 | ISBN 10: 0670919772
From Rwanda to Afghanistan, from Sudan to Iraq, this brilliantly written and at times blackly funny work of reportage shows how the humanitarian aid industry, the media and warmongers the world over are locked in a cycle of mutual support. Draw ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745649023 | ISBN 10: 0745649025
Official figures classify some fifty million of the world’s people as 'victims of forced displacement'. Refugees, asylum seekers, disaster victims, the internally displaced and the temporarily tolerated - categories of the excluded proliferate, but m ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844676286 | ISBN 10: 1844676285
A first-hand account of the failure of humanitarian intervention, from Somalia to Iraq. The idea that we should “do something” to help those suffering in far-off places is the main impulse driving those who care about human rights. Yet from ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781848130401 | ISBN 10: 1848130406
Africa is poor. If we send it money it will be less poor. It seems perfectly logical, doesn't it? Millions of people in the rich world, moved by images on television and appalled by the miserable conditions endured by so many in other countries, have ... more
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