The politics of aid to Myanmar
Subtitle: a humanitarian struggle on the Thai-Burmese border
By: Anne Décobert
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781138856271; 9781315719788
Subjects: Politics and government; Humanitarian assistance; Ethnic conflict; Humanitarianism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : An Ethnography of the Back Pack Health Worker Team's "Cross-Border Aid"; title: Humanitarianism, Victims and Politics : conceptual debates and approaches; title: From Burma to the Border : historical and political background to the debate around cross-border aid; title: The Back Pack Health Worker Team, Product of Burma's "Chronic Emergency"; title: Doing our Duty : Back Pack medics and the multi-ethnic victim; title: Back Pack is Something, Back Pack is Nothing; title: International Legitimacy for a "Humanitarian Struggle"; title: Beyond Burma : finding a place in a future Myanmar; title: Conclusion : The Politics of Humanitarian Aid, politics of life and politics of value.