The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism

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Katharyne Mitchell Polly Pallister-Wilkins (University of Amsterdam. Netherlands)

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism

Katharyne Mitchell, Polly Pallister-Wilkins (University of Amsterdam. Netherlands)

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Routledge
29 November 2024

Reference works; Development studies; International institutions; Regional geography; Natural disasters

Series: Routledge International Handbooks

This handbook builds a shared understanding of the troubling politics of philanthropy and the disturbing history and practices of humanitarianism.

While historical work on philanthropy has long suggested a link between imperial rule and humanitarian aid, these insights have only recently been brought to bear on contemporary forms of giving. In this book, contributors link the long history of colonial philanthropy to current foundations and their programs in education, health, migrant care, and other social initiatives. They argue that both philanthropy and humanitarianism often function to consolidate market rule, consolidating and expanding liberal market rationalities of neoliberal entrepreneurialism to a widening population and set of institutions.

Philanthropy and humanitarianism share a history, growing together out of modernist socio-economic relations and modes of imperial rule. However, the histories and contemporary politics of the two have not been brought together with such breadth or under such a critical lens before. Discussing philanthropy and humanitarianism together, combining both historical scope and contemporary iterations, highlights continuities and convergences—making the volume a unique introduction and critical overview of critical work in these sister-fields.

Edited by: Katharyne Mitchell, Polly Pallister-Wilkins (University of Amsterdam. Netherlands)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 562g
ISBN: 9780367755034
ISBN 10: 0367755033
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Pages: 316
Publication Date: 29 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katharyne Mitchell is dean of the social sciences and a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Polly Pallister-Wilkins is a political geographer and associate professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Amsterdam and is a co-editor of Geopolitics.