{"product_id":"realigning-humanitarianism-in-the-balkans-from-cold-war-politics-to-neoliberal-ethics-paperback-softback-9780253075222","title":"Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans; From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253075222","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRealigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrom Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eČarna Brković (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253075222\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 4 March 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages, 9 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 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\u003e\"Through reviving forgotten worldmaking projects from the Cold War era, \u003ci\u003eRealigning Humanitarianism\u003c\/i\u003e is much needed reading in our current increasingly militarized period. It is also an important contribution to rethinking the place of anthropological critique and analysis of different scalar projects.\"—Martin Fotta, author of From Itinerant Trade to Moneylending in the Era of Financial Inclusion: Households, Debts and Masculinity among Calon Gypsies of Northeast Brazil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This landmark study takes the reader on a riveting journey from socialist to neoliberal humanitarianism. In the process, it touches on one of the central questions of our time: what kind of world to care for and work toward.\"—Till Mostowlansky, author of Azan on the Moon: Entangling Modernity along Tajikistan's Pamir Highway\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is an essential read about world-making projects but also a world-making practice in itself as it reclaims this lost capacity epistemologically, addressing important themes of our political time from the largely disregarded problem-space of (post)socialist Yugoslavia.\"—Tanja Petrović, author of Utopia of the Uniform: Affective Afterlives of the Yugoslav People's Army\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the Cold War, humanitarianism became the focus of intense debates among intellectuals, politicians, and diplomats from capitalist, socialist, and nonaligned countries about the boundaries between the political and nonpolitical. However, with the fall of socialism near the end of the twentieth century, these discussions over what humanitarianism is, what it could be, and what it ought to be were largely forgotten.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRealigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans\u003c\/i\u003e examines how the fall of socialism changed humanitarianism in the Balkan region, beginning with the work of the Yugoslav Red Cross within the Non-Aligned Movement in the 1970s and continuing with work in Montenegro by local organizations in a refugee camp between 2000 and 2018. Author Čarna Brković traces how humanitarian regimes of care and discipline, implemented by local staff, have become the main source of support and the main channel of sociocultural integration of displaced communities in the Balkans. Within these regimes, though, structural problems generate a profound sense of disappointment for both the humanitarians and the displaced people.\u003cbr\u003e By tracing the shifts in humanitarianism between the West, the East, and the South, \u003ci\u003eRealigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers how the fall of state socialism shaped not only humanitarian practices but also how we analyze them—often in ways that have gone unnoticed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePrelude: The 1961 Founding of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade, Yugoslavia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Humanitarianism in a Multipolar World\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e1. Yugoslav Interventions in the International Humanitarian Debates in the 1970s: Legalistic Anti-racism of the Red Cross of Yugoslavia\u003cbr\u003e2. Progressive Peace Versus Peace of Conquerors and Aggressors: First Red Cross Peace Conference in Belgrade\u003cbr\u003e3. \"Changing Consciousness\": Building East–South Infrastructures of Humanitarian Aid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Humanitarianism After the Fall of Socialism\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eInterlude\u003cbr\u003e4. Realigning Humanitarianism: Learning How to Tame Feelings\u003cbr\u003e5. \"Changing Mentality\": Ethno-racialized and Classist Hierarchies of Subjectivity\u003cbr\u003e6. From Hope (\"If\") to Irony (\"As If\"): Suspended Agency in a Capitalist Semi-periphery\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Worldmakings in a Global East\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676790780184,"sku":"9780253075222","price":22.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/realigning-humanitarianism-in-the-balkans-from-cold-war-politics-to-neoliberal-ethics-paperback-softback-9780253075222","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}