Joy Damousi

The Humanitarians

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Produktbeschreibung

Spanning six decades from the formation of the Save the Children Fund in 1919 to humanitarian interventions during the Vietnam War, The Humanitarians maps the national and international humanitarian efforts undertaken by Australians on behalf of child refugees. In this longitudinal study, Joy Damousi explores the shifting forms of humanitarian activity related to war refugee children over the twentieth century, from child sponsorship, the establishment of orphanages, fundraising, to aid and development schemes and campaigns for inter-country adoption. Framed by conceptualisations of the history of emotions, and the limits and possibilities afforded by empathy and compassion, she considers the vital role of women and includes studies of unknown, but significant, women humanitarian workers and their often-traumatic experience of international humanitarian work. Through an examination of the intersection between racial politics and war refugees, Damousi advances our understanding of humanitarianism over the twentieth century as a deeply racialised and multi-layered practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 675g
• ISBN-13: 9781108833905
• ISBN-10: 110883390X
• Artikelnr.: 63239487

Autorenporträt

Joy Damousi is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. She has had a long-standing interest in Australian political history, beginning with her first book published twenty years ago on women in left-wing movements, Women Come Rally: Socialism, communism and gender in Australia 1890-1955 (1994). Since then she has written on various aspects of the politics and impact of war, migration and internationalism throughout the Cold War period. Her books include Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-war Australia (2001), Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia (2005) and Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840-1940 (2010). She is co-editor of Diversity in Leadership: Australian Women, Past and Present (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The humanitarians: War refugee children, humanitarianism, and
transnationalism; Part I. Saving: 1. Save the Children Fund in the
Antipodes: Cecilia John, Meredith Atkinson and the paradox of child-saving
politics; 2. The Australasian Orphanage at Antilyas: Near East Relief and
American networks 1920s-1930; Part II. Evacuating: 3. Humanitarianism and
child refugee sponsorship: The Spanish Civil War and Esme Odgers; 4.
Campaigns to evacuate Jewish child refugees; 5. British child evacuees to
Australia; 6. Aileen Fitzpatrick and reuniting Greek families separated by
war; Part III. Assimilating and adopting: 7. Humanitarian rights: UN World
Refugee Year and UNICEF in Australia; 8. Florence Grylls and Save the
Children Fund: Humanitarianism in the assimilation era; 9. The campaign for
Japanese-Australian children to enter Australia; 10. Humanitarian
'justice': Max Harris and the Australian Foster Parents Plan in Asia; 11.
Humanitarian activism: The Vietnam War, Rosemary Taylor, Elaine Moir and
Margaret Moses; Conclusion.