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

• Pubblicazione: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, , [2025]; ©2025
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Soggetto topico: HISTORY / Europe / Eastern; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
• Soggetto non controllato: activism; aid; development; East-Central Europe; Eastern Europe; Humanitarianism; local humanitarian initiatives; mobilisation; reliefl wars and conflict; state-building; Central Europe; Refugees; Socialist humanitarianism; Welfare; Transnational history; Child relief; Private humanitarianism; Faith-based humanitarianism
• Persona (resp. second.): CretuDoina Anca; FranklMichal
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Humanitarian mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe
• ISBN: 1-5261-8994-1; 9781526189943
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996710868003316
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