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Author: Lucia Hulsether
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9781478019206
ISBN 10: 1478019204
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 03 February 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""Hulsether combines reportage, ethnographic research, personal narrative, and social theory to look at the ways in which the 21st-century global economic system has absorbed the very movements that seek to resist it. . . . For Christian readers, this book reminds us of the critical stance Jesus took toward the social order in which he lived. We are called to lament the fallen world in which we live, then seek to build the kingdom of God within it. Hulsether's book models this approach beautifully, urging us to 'write a history of the impossible' in which 'survival is not the end.'"" --Jeannine Marie Pitas ""Christian Century"" (1/1/2024 12:00:00 AM)"
""Hulsether combines reportage, ethnographic research, personal narrative, and social theory to look at the ways in which the 21st-century global economic system has absorbed the very movements that seek to resist it. . . . [A] stance of constant resistance to an unjust system, even in the seeming absence of alternatives, is what Hulsether—who is a union activist as well as a teacher and scholar—calls us to take on. . . . Hulsether’s book models this approach beautifully, urging us to “write a history of the impossible” in which 'survival is not the end.'"" -- Jeannine Marie Pitas * Christian Century * ""Shifting between ethnography and history, between global systems and their material impact, [Capitalist Humanitarianism] shows how easily leftist critiques are coopted to allow well-meaning elites to feel good about themselves even as they facilitate the economic exploitation that lies at the heart of our global order."" -- Tisa Wenger * Reviews in American History * ""Capitalist Humanitarianism is a fundamental book to understand how capitalism weaponises leftist critiques, especially in its neoliberal phase. Critiques are mobilised as new business opportunities rather than breaking with the system. As expected, these new strategies do not result in ending oppression or exploitation, but simply in reshaping capitalist discourses around its practices."" -- Carolina Flores Gusmão * Bulletin of Latin American Research *
Author Information
Lucia Hulsether is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Skidmore College.
