The Crisis Caravan: What's Wrong with Humanitarian Aid?
Author: Linda Polman
Publisher: Picador Books
Print Length: 240 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Political Science, Journalism
Area: Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Republic of the Congo
Topic: Humanitarian Action & Humanitarianism, Ethics & Morality, Social/Aid Workers, Politics & Power, Military, War, Donors & Recipients, Refugees & Forced Migration, Hunger & Starvation
In her controversial, no-holds-barred exposé Linda Polman shows how a vast industry has grown up around humanitarian aid. The Crisis Caravan takes us to war zones around the globe, showing how aid operations and the humanitarian world have become a feature of military strategy. Impassioned, gripping, and even darkly absurd, journalist Linda Polman “gives some powerful examples of unconscionable assistance…a world where aid workers have become enablers of the atrocities they seek to relieve” (The Boston Globe).
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Goma: A “Total Ethical Disaster”
2. Contract Fever
3. MONGOs
4. Donor Darlings
5. Aid as a Weapon of War
6. Refugee Warriors
7. The Hunger Weapon
8. When Recipients Call the Shots
9. Afghaniscam
10. The Logic of the Humanitarian Era
Afterword: Ask Them Questions
Aidspeak
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Linda Polman is an investigative journalist based in Amsterdam. She has worked in various war zones and developing countries such as Somalia, Rwanda, Haïti, Sierra Leone, Congo and Afghanistan for more than fifteen years for a range of European radio stations and newspaper. She is the author of, among other titles, The Crisis Caravan, which was translated into nine languages. Polman’s work has been discussed internationally, including on John Stewart’s The Daily Show and in The New Yorker. For Death Row Dollies, about European women who link their fates to inmates on death row in the US, she spent an extended period in Texas. When in the Netherlands, Polman lectures for university journalism programs.
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