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The Need To Help By Liisa H. Malkki
T
o remove the varnish from the “gloss” of humanitarianism this book poses a simple question: “who ‘the needy’ are in the humanitarian encounter”?
The thoughtfulness with which this question is posed demonstrates Liisa Malkki’s unwillingness to take assumptions about the neediness of the Global South for granted.
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On the contrary she situates her ethnographic fieldwork in Finland: a country known for its neutrality, where a large number of the population devotes its time to voluntary service and the Finnish Red Cross holds special influence and prestige.
It is from here that the author begins to explore the domestic arts of international humanitarianism that are often disparaged or marginalized as a “mere” “complement” to the real world of politics.
The ‘realm of the mere’ signifies the disempowered and the domesticated (page 98). It is from here that she makes carefully nuanced inroads into the ethics of care, imagination, and affect management