{"product_id":"love-and-liberation-humanitarian-work-in-ethiopias-somali-region-hardback-9781501759475","title":"Love and Liberation; Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia's Somali Region (Hardback) 9781501759475","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLove and Liberation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHumanitarian Work in Ethiopia's Somali Region\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLauren Carruth (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501759475\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 October 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 8 b\u0026amp;w halftones, 1 map, 1 chart - 8 Halftones, black and white - 1 Charts - 1 Maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauren Carruth's \u003ci\u003eLove and Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e is an insightful ethnographic study of global humanitarianism, critically analyzing humanitarian work in Ethiopia's Somali Region (Soomaaliweyn). Over the course of the book's chapters, the author takes us on a journey, from the vast and arid terrains of the Ogaden to the dilapidated and stifling office buildings of Jijiga (the region's capital).\u003c\/p\u003e (Society of the Anthropology of Work)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Carruth's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove and Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e tells a new kind of humanitarian story. The protagonists are not volunteers from afar but rather Somali locals caring for each other: nurses, aid workers, policymakers, drivers, community health workers, and bureaucrats.\u003c\/b\u003e The contributions of locals are often taken for granted, and the competencies, aspirations, and effectiveness of local staffers frequently remain muted or absent from the planning and evaluation of humanitarian interventions structured by outsiders. Relief work is traditionally imagined as politically neutral and impartial, and interventions are planned as temporary, extraordinary, and distant. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarruth provides an alternative vision of what \"humanitarian\" response means in practice—not driven by International Humanitarian Law, the missions of Western relief organizations, or trends in the aid industry or academia but instead by what Somalis call \u003ci\u003esamafal\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eSamafal\u003c\/i\u003e is structured by the cultivation of lasting relationships of care, interdependence, kinship, and ethnic solidarity. Samafal is also explicitly political and potentially emancipatory: humanitarian responses present opportunities for Somalis to begin to redress histories of colonial partitions and to make the most out of their political and economic marginalization. By centering \u003ci\u003eLove and Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e around Somalis' understanding and enactments of \u003ci\u003esamafal\u003c\/i\u003e, Carruth offers a new perspective on politics and intervention in Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue: \"I Cannot Give It Up\"\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Humanitarianism in the Margins of Empire\u003cbr\u003e 1. Humanitarianism Is Local\u003cbr\u003e 2. Humanitarianism Is Samafal\u003cbr\u003e 3. Humanitarian Work\u003cbr\u003e 4. Crisis Work\u003cbr\u003e 5. Humanitarianism Is Anti-Politics\u003cbr\u003e 6. From Crisis to Liberation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607806046488,"sku":"9781501759475","price":85.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/love-and-liberation-humanitarian-work-in-ethiopias-somali-region-hardback-9781501759475","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}