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Disadvantaged Childhoods and Humanitarian Intervention

Processes of Affective Commodification and Objectification

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Editors:
  1. Kristen Cheney

    1. International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands

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  2. Aviva Sinervo

    1. Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA

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  • Offers a unique focus on the politics of childhood within humanitarian aid and international development
  • Examines geographically diverse areas such as the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Australia and North America
  • Highlights the experiences of children targeted for aid

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development (PSCD)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. NGO Economies of Affect: Humanitarianism and Childhood in Contemporary and Historical Perspective

    • Aviva Sinervo, Kristen Cheney
    Pages 1-35

  3. The Orphan Industrial Complex: The Charitable Commodification of Children and Its Consequences for Child Protection

    • Kristen Cheney, Stephen Ucembe
    Pages 37-61

  4. Letting Girls Learn, Letting Girls Rise: Commodifying Girlhoods in Humanitarian Campaigns

    • Karishma Desai
    Pages 63-85

  5. Commodification in Multiple Registers: Child Workers, Child Consumers, and Child Labor NGOs in India

    • Miriam Thangaraj
    Pages 87-112

  6. A Tale of Two NGO Discourses: NGO Stories of Suffering Qur’anic School Children in Senegal

    • Sara E. Lahti
    Pages 113-134

  7. The Right to Play Versus the Right to War? Vulnerable Childhood in Lebanon’s NGOization

    • Estella Carpi, Chiara Diana
    Pages 135-156

  8. Need Saving?/Saving Need: Intersecting Discourses on Urban Children, Families, and Need in a U.S. Faith-Based Organization

    • Caroline E. Compretta
    Pages 157-179

  9. Flattening Need and Steepening Responsibility: Navigating Access to Islands of Care for Children Living with HIV in Uganda

    • Colleen Walsh Lang
    Pages 181-204

  10. Forming a Humanitarian Brand: Childhood and Affect in Central Australia

    • Drew Anderson
    Pages 205-226

  11. Correction to: The Right to Play Versus the Right to War? Vulnerable Childhood in Lebanon’s NGOization

    • Estella Carpi, Chiara Diana
    Pages C1-C1

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 227-232
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About this book

This book explores how humanitarian interventions for children in difficult circumstances engage in affective commodification of disadvantaged childhoods. The chapters consider how transnational charitable industries are created and mobilized around childhood need—highlighting children in situations of war and poverty, and with indeterminate access to health and education—to redirect global resource flows and sentiments in order to address concerns of child suffering. The authors discuss examples from around the world to show how, as much as these processes can help achieve the goals of aid organizations, such practices can also perpetuate the conditions that organizations seek to alleviate and thereby endanger the very children they intend to help.

Editors and Affiliations

  • International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands

    Kristen Cheney

  • Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA

    Aviva Sinervo

About the editors

Kristen Cheney is Associate Professor of Children and Youth Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies in the Hague, the Netherlands. Her current research focuses on adolescent sexual and reproductive health, surrogacy, and the impact of global humanitarian interventions for children on child protection and wellbeing in developing countries. 


Aviva Sinervo is a Lecturer of Anthropology at San Francisco State University and Human Development at California State University, East Bay, USA. She researches the moral and affective economies of child labor, international aid, volunteer tourism, and urban street vending; current interests include generational/maturational shifts in wage-earning strategies, cosmopolitanism, and government-NGO collaborations in Peru. 



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