Spaces of Aid

How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism

Lisa Smirl

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English

Zed Books
12 March 2015

Development studies; Aid & relief programmes; Politics & government

Aid workers commonly bemoan that the experience of working in the field sits uneasily with the goals they’ve signed up to: visiting project sites in air-conditioned Land Cruisers while the intended beneficiaries walk barefoot through the heat, or checking emails from within gated compounds while surrounding communities have no running water.

Spaces of Aid provides the first book-length analysis of what has colloquially been referred to as Aid Land. It explores in depth two high-profile case studies, the Aceh tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, in order to uncover a fascinating history of the objects and spaces that have become an endemic yet unexamined part of the delivery of humanitarian assistance.

By: Lisa Smirl
Imprint: Zed Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 138mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781783603497
ISBN 10: 1783603496
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 12 March 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: http://isni.org/isni/0000000137059979

Lisa Smirl was a lecturer in international relations at the University of Sussex. She worked previously for the United Nations Development Programme in Africa, Southeast Europe and Central Asia. A Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, she did graduate work at the London School of Economics and completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2010. Lisa was from Manitoba, Canada. She died in 2013 at the age of 37.

Reviews for Spaces of Aid: How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism

'Lisa's work is inspirational. She was one of the first to expose the spatial dimensions of aid and thus open to view a whole new area of critique and research - At a time when international aid workers are retreating from the terrestrial world and concentrating within international archipelago's of gated complexes and secure transport links, Lisa's becomes all the more important.' Mark Duffield, Professor Emeritus at the University of Bristol and Honorary Professor, University of Birmingham; author of Global Governance and the New Wars 'Lisa Smirl's work is innovative, interesting, engaging and critically challenging.' Stephen Hopgood, author of The Endtimes of Human Rights and Keepers of the Flame: 'Lisa Smirl is (or sadly, was) one of the most original and brilliant academics working on the global humanitarian order.' Tim Dunne, Professor of International Relations, University of Queensland