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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337866703321

Titolo

Disadvantaged Childhoods and Humanitarian Intervention : Processes of Affective Commodification and Objectification / / edited by Kristen Cheney, Aviva Sinervo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-01623-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 232 p. 7 illus., 4 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies on Children and Development

Disciplina

338.9

362.7

Soggetti

Economic development

Youth in development

Poverty

Economic development—Environmental aspects

Economic policy

Development and Children

Development Aid

Development and Sustainability

Development Policy

Regional Development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: NGO Economies of Affect: Humanitarianism and Childhood in Contemporary and Historical Perspective -- 2.The Orphan Industrial Complex: The Charitable Commodification of Children and its Consequences for Child Protection -- 3. Letting Girls Learn, Letting Girls Rise: Commodifying Girlhoods in Humanitarian Campaigns -- 4. Commodification in Multiple Registers: Child Workers, Child Consumers and Child Labor NGOs in India -- 5. A Tale of Two NGO Discourses: NGO Stories of Suffering Qur’anic School Children in Senegal -- 6. The Right to Play versus the Right to War? Vulnerable Childhood in Lebanon’s NGOization -- 7. Need Saving?/Saving Need: Intersecting Discourses on Urban Children, Families, and Need in a U.S. Faith-based



Organization -- 8. Flattening Need and Steepening Responsibility: Navigating Access to Islands of Care for Children Living with HIV in Uganda -- 9. Forming a Humanitarian Brand: Childhood and Affect in Central Australia. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores how humanitarian interventions for children in difficult circumstances engage in affective commodification of disadvantaged childhoods. The chapters consider how transnational charitable industries are created and mobilized around childhood need—highlighting children in situations of war and poverty, and with indeterminate access to health and education—to redirect global resource flows and sentiments in order to address concerns of child suffering. The authors discuss examples from around the world to show how, as much as these processes can help achieve the goals of aid organizations, such practices can also perpetuate the conditions that organizations seek to alleviate and thereby endanger the very children they intend to help.