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Author:   Cilas Kemedjio ,  Cecelia Lynch
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2024
ISBN:  

9783031465529

ISBN 10:   3031465520
Pages:   257
Publication Date:   20 March 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Reading Humanitarianism Critically.- Chapter 2. The Humanitarian Misunderstanding in the Postcolonial Humanitarian African Imagination.- Chapter 3. Extractive Salvation: Zoe’s Ark and the Ethic of Humanitarianism in Africa.- Chapter 4: Historical Roots of South African Ambivalence Toward “Africa”.- Chapter 5. Joseph Kony, Invisible Children, and Military Humanitarianism in the Northern Uganda Conflict.- Chapter 6: Engendering Care Revisited: Decolonizing Global Health and Dismantling Gender Stereotypes in HIV Care in Africa.- Chapter 7: How West African Women “Save” the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda.- Chapter 8: ‘Trust no one’: The logics of microfinance, depending on whom you ask.- Chapter 9. Toxic Scavenging in the Digital Divide.- Chapter 10. COVID-19 and the African Disaster that Wasn’t.- Chapter 11: Taking, Giving, Repairing and Reversing.- Chapter 12. The Last Word: Funtumfunafu, Denkyemfunafu: The Individual, the Community Reciprocity and Grace.

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Cilas Kemedjio is Professor of Francophone African and Caribbean literary and cultural studies at the University of Rochester, USA.  Cecelia Lynch is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine, USA.

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