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The Humanitarian Hangover - 9781868144556

Un libro in lingua di Landau Loren B. edito da Transaction Pub, 2007

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Landau (U. of Witwatersrand, South Africa) explores how the influx of displaced persons and humanitarian aid programs have transformed governmental practice, understood in the Foucauldian sense, in Western Tanzania in terms of renumerative or material disciplines that function through control over material resources, the allocation of salaries and wages, commissions and contributions, and services and commodities; coercive disciplines of physical sanction, restriction on movement, and indirect coercion implicitly relying on the threat of force (e.g. taxation); and normative and identitive disciplines that rest on the formation and manipulation of symbols and identities. He argues that examining these transformation of regimes of practice (which he dubs the "humanitarian hangover") cannot be understood in aggregrative terms with reference to modernization, political incorporation, or globalization and that therefore his triaxial model of changing material, coercive, and normative disciplines is the best explanatory tool for not just the effects of humanitarian influx on Western Tanzania, but also any transformation brought about through exogenous shock or crisis. Distributed in the US by Transaction Publishers. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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