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Record Nr.

UNINA9911064914303321

Titolo

Humanitarian mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe : Local, national and international perspectives / / Doina Anca Cretu, Michal Frankl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, , [2025]

©2025

ISBN

1-5261-8994-1

9781526189943

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

HISTORY / Europe / Eastern

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General

POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction / Doina Anca Cretu, Michal Frankl  -- I Local humanitarianism -- 1 Save the (workers') children / Friederike Kind-Kovács  -- 2 Ethnicizing aid / Franciszek Zakrzewski  -- 3 When the 'socialist good life' met its match / Cristian Capotescu  -- 4 Self-organized care for older people in East Germany / Maren Hachmeister  -- II National humanitarianism -- 5 The Czechoslovak Red Cross and refugee children from Greece and North Korea / Nikola Tohma  -- 6 Refugees in the 'better Germany' / Julia Reinke  -- III Transnational humanitarianism -- 7 How to leave Central Europe? Transnational, humanitarian state building and the post-Habsburg transition / Gábor Egry  -- 8 Western perceptions of Czechoslovak humanitarian interactions under Nazi occupation, 1938-1939 / Laura Brade  -- 9 'The same spirit that led me into war' / Ruth Nattermann  -- 10 Religious humanitarianism / Sarah Knoll  -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

By focusing on aid in Central and Eastern Europe, this volume adds to the existent scholarly explorations of modern humanitarianism, its actors and practices. In the twentieth century, aid workers assisted



victims of war and earthquakes, delivered food, supported health care, provided childcare, or sheltered refugees. The contributors not only reconstruct these diverse histories and their protagonists, but also bring international, national, and local actors together: from grassroots activists to private associations to state-driven "socialist humanitarians" to large Western aid organizations. In doing so, they challenge the often unidirectional, from West-to-East, and asymmetrical perspective on donor-recipient relationships in humanitarian processes.