{"product_id":"love-and-liberation-lauren-carruth-9781501759666","title":"Love and Liberation: Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia's Somali Region","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Carruth's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove and Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e tells a new kind of humanitarian story. The protagonists are not volunteers from afar but rather Somali locals caring for each other: nurses, aid workers, policymakers, drivers, community health workers, and bureaucrats.\u003c\/b\u003e The contributions of locals are often taken for granted, and the competencies, aspirations, and effectiveness of local staffers frequently remain muted or absent from the planning and evaluation of humanitarian interventions structured by outsiders. Relief work is traditionally imagined as politically neutral and impartial, and interventions are planned as temporary, extraordinary, and distant. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarruth provides an alternative vision of what \"humanitarian\" response means in practice--not driven by International Humanitarian Law, the missions of Western relief organizations, or trends in the aid industry or academia but instead by what Somalis call \u003ci\u003esamafal\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eSamafal\u003c\/i\u003e is structured by the cultivation of lasting relationships of care, interdependence, kinship, and ethnic solidarity. Samafal is also explicitly political and potentially emancipatory: humanitarian responses present opportunities for Somalis to begin to redress histories of colonial partitions and to make the most out of their political and economic marginalization. By centering \u003ci\u003eLove and Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e around Somalis' understanding and enactments of \u003ci\u003esamafal\u003c\/i\u003e, Carruth offers a new perspective on politics and intervention in Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lauren Carruth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501759663\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501759666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Lauren Carruth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991087907071,"sku":"9781501759666","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_99614fce-6947-4229-b4ea-91dce672e39d.jpg?v=1683308367","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-and-liberation-lauren-carruth-9781501759666","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}