{"product_id":"global-humanitarianism-9780739109397","title":"Global Humanitarianism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 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","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037396795735,"sku":"9780739109397","price":79.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780739109397.jpg?v=1750935601","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/global-humanitarianism-9780739109397","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}