Spaces of aid : how cars, compounds and hotels shape humanitarianism / / Lisa Smirl
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| Autore: |
Smirl Lisa
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| Titolo: |
Spaces of aid : how cars, compounds and hotels shape humanitarianism / / Lisa Smirl
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Zed Books, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.348 |
| Soggetto topico: | Humanitarian assistance - Management |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Spaces of aid |
| ISBN: | 1-78360-353-4 |
| 1-78360-349-6 | |
| 1-78360-351-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463713103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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