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Book SynopsisIn Global Humanitarianism: NGOs and the Crafting of Community, author Rob DeChaine explores a narrative common to the nongovernmental organization community about the promise and confusion of living together in post/modern times. Palpable in their affective admixture of idealism, fear, hope, anger and uncertainty, the protagonists of the story are humanitarian social actors, engaged in a vivid social drama. Their audience, as made apparent by DeChaine''s excellent scholarship, is intimately engaged in the drama as well. According to DeChaine, the action takes shape in a multivocal polyphony of solidarity and, at times, cacophony of protest and dissent, with actors mobilizing symbolic resources in the service of uniting a public who would join with them in the cause. A major source of the actors'' labor is symbolic, consisting in the successful rallying of formative energies in and around a cluster of key related terms, words and phrases, in order to dramatize and publicize the exigency
Trade ReviewIn this book, author Daniel Robert DeChaine illuminates aspects of human rights organizations that have received relatively little attention, particularly from those focused more on the structure of such entities. -- Claude Welch, SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, University of Buffalo, The State University of New York,
Table of ContentsChapter 1 The Crisis of Community in a Global/ized World Chapter 2 The Crafting of a New Global Community Chapter 3 Framing Humanitarian Action: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders Chapter 4 Mobilizing Global Rhetorical Culture: The International Campaign to Ban Landmines Chapter 5 Taking Community Seriously
