Humanitarians on the Frontier

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Humanitarians on the Frontier is written by Alasdair Gordon-Gibson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1538151049 (ISBN 10) and 9781538151044 (ISBN 13).

The book examines the reasons behind accusations of dysfunctional humanitarian identities and the loss of space for impartial action. Through a combination of practical examples in case studies from the field with a theoretical and philosophical approach to questions of voluntary service, community and identity, it reconsiders the exceptional discourse that constructs these identities and drives humanitarian response in environments of complex emergency. By recognizing both the strength and the limits of its social and political agency, the study presents opportunities for the construction of a less exceptional space, or ‘niche’ within the humanitarian sector, where the politics is around one of an ordinary humanitarian society instead of an ordered humanitarian system.