Antonio De Lauri is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Milan Bicocca. He has undertaken fieldwork in Afghanistan since 2005, with a focus on legal reconstruction, human rights, war and humanitarian intervention. He is currently part of an international research project on slavery and forms of extreme dependence.
Contents
1. Introduction
Antonio De Lauri
2. Governing the Crisis: A Critical Genealogy of Humanitarian Intervention
Mariella Pandolfi and Philip Rousseau
3. Humanitarianism as Pretext: Defining what is Moral and Just
Laura Nader and Robin Savinar
4. Humanitarian Theatre: Normality and the Carnivalesque in Afghanistan
Julie Billaud and Antonio De Lauri
5. 'I'm doing it for myself!': The Aggressive Promotion of the Individual
Self as the Dark Side of
Women's Rights
Elisabetta Grande
6. Batoto wa Maria: Humanitarianism, the Provincial State, Missionaries and
the Concept of Childhood in the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Edoardo Quaretta
7. The Politics of International Aid: The Impact of Local Politics and
International Priorities on
Aid Allocation in Yemen
Alexandra Lewis
8. A Sovereign for All: The Management of Refugees as Nation-State Politics
Sophie Hoffmann
Index
