Liisa H Malkki: 3 books
The Need to Help
The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
In The Need to Help Liisa H. Malkki shifts the focus of the study of humanitarian intervention from aid recipients to aid workers themselves. The anthropological commitment to understand the motivations and desires of these professionals and how they imagine themselves in the world "out there,"...
Purity and Exile
Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
In this study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile in Tanzania after their 1972 insurrection against the dominant Tutsi was brutally quashed, Liisa Malkki shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into narratives, and how this process helps to construct...
In the Name of Humanity
The Government of Threat and Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Scientists, activists, state officials, NGOs, and others increasingly claim to speak and act on behalf of “humanity.” The remarkable array of circumstances in which humanity is invoked testifies to the category’s universal purchase. Yet what exactly does it mean to govern, fight, and care in...