Disadvantaged Childhoods and Humanitarian Intervention Processes of Affective Commodification and Objectification

Disadvantaged Childhoods and Humanitarian Intervention Processes of Affective Commodification and Objectification / edited by Kristen Cheney, Aviva Sinervo.

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...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Cheney, Kristen (Editor), Sinervo, Aviva (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Economic development.
Youth in development.
Poverty.
Economic development—Environmental aspects.
Economic policy.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: NGO Economies of Affect: Humanitarianism and Childhood in Contemporary and Historical Perspective
  • 2.The Orphan Industrial Complex: The Charitable Commodification of Children and its Consequences for Child Protection
  • 3. Letting Girls Learn, Letting Girls Rise: Commodifying Girlhoods in Humanitarian Campaigns
  • 4. Commodification in Multiple Registers: Child Workers, Child Consumers and Child Labor NGOs in India
  • 5. A Tale of Two NGO Discourses: NGO Stories of Suffering Qur’anic School Children in Senegal
  • 6. The Right to Play versus the Right to War? Vulnerable Childhood in Lebanon’s NGOization
  • 7. Need Saving?/Saving Need: Intersecting Discourses on Urban Children, Families, and Need in a U.S. Faith-based Organization
  • 8. Flattening Need and Steepening Responsibility: Navigating Access to Islands of Care for Children Living with HIV in Uganda
  • 9. Forming a Humanitarian Brand: Childhood and Affect in Central Australia. .

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