Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs: Minimal Humanity

ISBN-13: 9780367222154 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 260 str.

Joel Glasman

Opis

This book provides the first historical inquiry into the quantification of needs in humanitarian assistance. Ultimately the book argues that we cannot understand the global humanitarian aid movement, if we do not understand how humanitarian agencies made human suffering commensurable across borders in the first place.

Spis treści

Introduction: Minimal Humanity: The Commensuration of Human Suffering on a Global Scale  1. Concepts. Elements for a genealogy of needology  2. Classifications. UNHCR and the legibility of refugees in Central Africa  3. Measures. Malnutrition, MUAC, and the materialization of anthropometry  4. Standards. The 'Sphere project' and the universalization of the vital minimum after Goma  5. Registration. Refugees and the emergence of a humanitarian field in Cameroun  6. Vulnerability. Impartial algorithms and analog malnutrition  Conclusion: Infrastructures of commensurability

O autorze

Joël Glasman is Professor of African History at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.