Overview
- Takes up Ngūgī wa Thiong’o’s challenge to see how Africa gives to the west instead of the reverse
- Unpacks critical legacies from colonial and missionary genealogies to nongovernmental organizations
- Argues that humanitarian interventions continue to mask ongoing forms of despoiling African well-being
Part of the book series: Culture and Religion in International Relations (CRIR)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In this innovative volume, experts from international relations, anthropology, sociology, global public health, postcolonial African literature, and gender studies, take up Ngūgī wa Thiong’o’s challenge to see how Africa gives to the west instead of the reverse. Humanitarian assumptions are challenged by unpacking critical legacies from colonial and missionary genealogies to today’s global networks of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Who Gives to Whom: Reframing Africa in the Humanitarian Imaginary is a decolonial gesture that builds on Ngūgī’s work as well as that of pan-Africanist and intersectional feminist scholars. Contributions range from assessing the impact of historical legacies of colonialism on gender, religious/secular attempts at “saving” Africans to (South) African unrealized project to reconfigure foreign policy frameworks shaped by apartheid. Case studies of “silver bullet” solutions focus on the incorporation of women in peacebuilding, microfinance, and e-waste disposal, to argue that humanitarian interventions continue to mask ongoing forms of despoiling African well-being while shortchanging intersectional African forms of agency.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Cecelia Lynch is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Who Gives to Whom? Reframing Africa in the Humanitarian Imaginary
Editors: Cilas Kemedjio, Cecelia Lynch
Series Title: Culture and Religion in International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46553-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46552-9Published: 20 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46555-0Due: 20 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-46553-6Published: 19 March 2024
Series ISSN: 2945-7831
Series E-ISSN: 2945-784X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 257
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Politics and Religion, African Politics, Development Studies, Political Science, Gender Studies