International Aid and Urban Change: Humanitarian Presence in Bamako, Abidjan, Nairobi and Juba

ISBN-13: 9783034344128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 364 str.

Pablo de Roulet

Opis

The presence of expatriate humanitarian workers in African cities is not neutral. Country capitals receive large and sudden influx of expatriates during humanitarian crises responses. This book examines the influence of this presence on the local urban ecosystem, from the building of a security discourse to the self-segregation of aid agencies in expatriate enclaves. The examples of Abidjan, Bamako, Juba and Nairobi illustrate different variants of urban change induced by the normative power of aid organisations.

Spis treści

List of Abbreviations - Introduction - Theory and Method - The Aid Industry: Social Field and Spatial Habitus - Panorama - Landscape of War - The Layer - Transformations - Synthesis - Conclusion - List of Figures - Bibliography .

O autorze

Pablo de Roulet is a social scientist and a cartographer. His research focusses onsocio-spatial dynamics in the Global South cities. His interest in the geography of aidstems from his experience in field missions for humanitarian organisations.