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OverviewLauren Carruth's Love and Liberation tells a new kind of humanitarian story. The protagonists are not volunteers from afar but rather Somali locals caring for each other: nurses, aid workers, policymakers, drivers, community health workers, and bureaucrats. The contributions of locals are often taken for granted, and the competencies, aspirations, and effectiveness of local staffers frequently remain muted or absent from the planning and evaluation of humanitarian interventions structured by outsiders. Relief work is traditionally imagined as politically neutral and impartial, and interventions are planned as temporary, extraordinary, and distant. Carruth provides an alternative vision of what ""humanitarian"" response means in practice-not driven by International Humanitarian Law, the missions of Western relief organizations, or trends in the aid industry or academia but instead by what Somalis call samafal. Samafal is structured by the cultivation of lasting relationships of care, interdependence, kinship, and ethnic solidarity. Samafal is also explicitly political and potentially emancipatory: humanitarian responses present opportunities for Somalis to begin to redress histories of colonial partitions and to make the most out of their political and economic marginalization. By centering Love and Liberation around Somalis' understanding and enactments of samafal, Carruth offers a new perspective on politics and intervention in Africa. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lauren CarruthPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781501759666ISBN 10: 1501759663 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 15 October 2021 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Prologue: ""I Cannot Give It Up"" Introduction: Humanitarianism in the Margins of Empire 1. Humanitarianism Is Local 2. Humanitarianism Is Samafal 3. Humanitarian Work 4. Crisis Work 5. Humanitarianism Is Anti-Politics 6. From Crisis to Liberation"ReviewsLauren Carruth's Love and Liberation is an insightful ethnographic study of global humanitarianism, critically analyzing humanitarian work in Ethiopia's Somali Region (Soomaaliweyn). Over the course of the book's chapters, the author takes us on a journey, from the vast and arid terrains of the Ogaden to the dilapidated and stifling office buildings of Jijiga (the region's capital). * Society of the Anthropology of Work * Author InformationLauren Carruth is Assistant Professor at American University. Follow her on X @anthrogirrrl. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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