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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463713103321

Autore

Smirl Lisa

Titolo

Spaces of aid : how cars, compounds and hotels shape humanitarianism / / Lisa Smirl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Zed Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78360-353-4

1-78360-349-6

1-78360-351-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

363.348

Soggetti

Humanitarian assistance - Management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; About the Author ; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Note to the Reader; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Argument; Methodology; The Structure; 1: Stories from the Field, Stories of 'The Field': How Aid Workers Experience the Space of the Field Mission; Aid Work as Rite of Passage; Liminal Spaces, Affective Constraints; Conclusion: Setting the Stage; 2: Exploring the Humanitarian Enclave; Perceptions of Insecurity Among Aid Workers; The Evolution of Physical Securitization in the Field; The Compound as the New Archetype of Humanitarianism

Conclusion3: How the Built Environment Shapes Humanitarian Intervention; How the Material Matters: A Framework for Analysis; Auxiliary Space; The Impact on 'Others' ; The Impact on the Aid Workers: Gated Communities; Sport Utility Vehicles; The Grand Hotel; Conclusion; 4: Building Home Away from Home: Post-Tsunami Aceh, and the Single-Family House; Mapping the 'Second Tsunami' ; The Single-Family House; The Gift of the House; The House as Commodity; From Donors to Contractors; 5: Playing House: Rebuilding the Gulf Coast after Katrina; The Appeal of the Blank Slate

Make It Right or Making It Wrong: The Solution of Green Architecture in



New Orleans' Lower NinthImagined Communities: New Urbanism and the Post-Katrina Gulf Coast; The Katrina Cottage: Emblem of the Reconstruction; A Shotgun Reconstruction; Conclusion; A Tripartite Model of Space; Implications for Theory and Policy; Future Research Directions; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

A landmark work that - through analysing the three key symbolic sites of the grand hotel, the SUV and the compound - shows why we urgently need to think differently about humanitarian theory and practice.