Disquieting Gifts: Humanitarianism in New DelhiE.Bornstein. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. xiv + 174 pp., notes, bibliog., index. ISBN 978-0804770019. USD $77.00 (Hc.); ISBN 978-0804770026. USD $22.95 (Pb.).
Disquieting Gifts: Humanitarianism in New DelhiE.Bornstein. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. xiv + 174 pp., notes, bibliog., index. ISBN 978-0804770019. USD $77.00 (Hc.); ISBN 978-0804770026. USD $22.95 (Pb.).
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令人不安的礼物：新德里的人道主义主义E.伯恩斯坦。
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10.1111/taja.12056
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New Delhi and India at large are animated by a multitude of quotidian acts of giving, from handing out food, clothing or money to beggars, to long-term commitment to supporting charitable organisations. Whilst these spontaneous and informal acts might not engender long-lasting societal change, in this monograph Erica Bornstein puts across a convincing case for the role of everyday forms of charity and philanthropy in the provision of social protection to the urban poor. The book charts intersections between diverse orientations, motivations and expectations that connect local, transnational and global humanitarian practices. The emerging picture is inevitably one of complexity, overlaps and tensions. Different economies of affect underpinning charitable giving do not simply exist alongside each other, but work through each other. Against the grain of mainstream understandings of what constitutes humanitarian intervention and of critiques of charity as an ineffectual vehicle of social justice, in time honoured anthropological tradition Erica Bornstein deploys a rich ethnography to discuss various instances of altruistic giving through which people react to and address the suffering of others. Organised around specific themes, each chapter takes the reader through case studies that underscore contradictions between specific cultural understandings and actual practices, and how the latter intersect with the regulatory efforts of the state, as well as of national and international NGOs.
