Love and Liberation Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia’s Somali Region

Lauren Carruth, "Love and Liberation: Humanitarian Work in Ethiopia’s Somali Region"
English | ISBN: 1501759477 | 2021 | 240 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Lauren Carruth’s Love and Liberation 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. 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.