The Need to Help: The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism
The Need to Help: The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism
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帮助的需要：国际人道主义的国内艺术
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2015
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Liisa H. Malkki
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作者：
Liisa H. Malkki
需要帮助Liisa H。马尔基将人道主义干预的研究重点从援助接受者转移到援助工作者本身。人类学致力于了解这些专业人士的动机和愿望，以及他们如何想象自己在“外面”的世界中，这使得马尔基花了十多年的时间采访芬兰国际红十字会的成员，并观察那些通过手工礼物在家中志愿服务的芬兰人。她指出，帮助的需要可能来自于一种深刻的需要--援助工作者和志愿者需要成为这个充满活力的世界的一部分，需要比他们自己更伟大的东西，而对于那些为“贫困儿童”编织“创伤泰迪熊”和“援助兔子”的老人来说，需要与孤独和丧失人格作斗争。在认真研究人道主义援助的各个方面时，马尔基常常被认为是多愁善感或微不足道的，他使什么是真实的政治工作的概念复杂化了。她追溯了国际如何总是纠缠在国内，无论是在需要离开家的形状或手工制作的礼物，是一个援助社会和世界的想象力。
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," led Malkki to spend more than a decade interviewing members of the international Finnish Red Cross, as well as observing Finns who volunteered from their homes through gifts of handwork. The need to help, she shows, can come from a profound neediness—the need for aid workers and volunteers to be part of the lively world and something greater than themselves, and, in the case of the elderly who knit "trauma teddies" and "aid bunnies" for "needy children," the need to fight loneliness and loss of personhood. In seriously examining aspects of humanitarian aid often dismissed as sentimental, or trivial, Malkki complicates notions of what constitutes real political work. She traces how the international is always entangled in the domestic, whether in the shape of the need to leave home or handmade gifts that are an aid to sociality and to the imagination of the world.