The politics of aid to Burma : a humanitarian struggle on the Thai-Burmese border / Anne Décobert.

Author
Décobert, Anne [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Description
xvi, 274 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction : An Ethnography of the Back Pack Health Worker Team's "Cross-Border Aid"
    • Humanitarianism, Victims and Politics : conceptual debates and approaches
    • From Burma to the Border : historical and political background to the debate around cross-border aid
    • The Back Pack Health Worker Team, Product of Burma's "Chronic Emergency"
    • Doing our Duty : Back Pack medics and the multi-ethnic victim
    • Back Pack is Something, Back Pack is Nothing
    • International Legitimacy for a "Humanitarian Struggle"
    • Beyond Burma : finding a place in a future Myanmar
    • Conclusion : The Politics of Humanitarian Aid, politics of life and politics of value.
    ISBN
    • 9781138856271 (hardback)
    • 1138856274 (hardback)
    LCCN
    2015021502
    OCLC
    910859793
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