Resilient Humanitarianism
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
9781009702232 (ISBN)
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In the first independent study of the League of Red Cross Societies, an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars examine its history, and how it influenced twentieth-century humanitarianism. They explore how the League evolved from 1919 to 1991 as a peacetime organisation of the Red Cross in contrast to the original wartime focus of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Investigating largely unknown, but significant actors, they shed new light on the League's activities in Southeast Asia, the Horn of Africa, Latin America and Europe through case studies focussing on its global health initiatives, the complexity of its networks in war and peace, and its role in providing relief. The authors argue that it is impossible to understand today's Red Cross and Red Crescent movement and global humanitarianism without considering the structures, expertise and training provided by the League to member National Societies from 1919 to 1991.
Melanie Oppenheimer is Honorary Professor of History at The Australian National University and Emeritus Professor at Flinders University and author of All Work, No Pay: Australian Civilian Volunteers in War. Her research covers voluntary work, gender and war and she is the centenary historian of the Australian Red Cross. Neville Wylie is Professor of International History at the University of Stirling and author of Barbed Wire Diplomacy: Britain, Germany, and the Politics of Prisoners of War 1939–1945. He was one of the first independent scholars to consult the ICRC archives in the early 1990s. Susanne Schech is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Flinders University and author of Culture and Development: A Critical Introduction (2000). Her research contributes to critical development geographies on race and whiteness, humanitarian migration and resettlement, and the politics of international volunteering. Romain Fathi is Senior Lecturer in History at the Australian National University and an affiliated researcher at the Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po. He is author of The Red Cross's Public Health Turn. His research focusses on the First World War, the history of public health, and the treatment of human remains in conflicts. Jordan Evans is an early career researcher in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Flinders University. His research investigates the history of blood transfusion in the 20th century and its intersections with humanitarianism, technology, and decolonisation.
Introduction: the league of red cross societies: per humanitatem ad pacem; Part I. Disruption of the Red Cross Ecosystem: 1. 1919 – Rebirth; 2. 1946 – Recalibration; 3. 1975 – Reflection; Part II. Global Health Initiatives: 4. Coordinating global action against venereal diseases in the interwar period; 5. The league's international nursing programme in the 1920s and 30s; 6. The junior red cross, youth and disability; 7. The promotion of voluntary blood donation; 8. The league and the WHO in global public health; Part III. A Peacetime Organisation in War: 9. The league at war; 10. Latin America, regionalism and strategies for survival, 1939–45; 11. The nursing bureau missions to Latin America in the 1940s; Part IV. Providing Relief and Building Capacity: 12. Development in the Global South; 13. The league in South-East Asia during the cold war, 1950s–1970s; 14. Re-evaluating red cross relationships and famines in Africa, 1970s and 1980s; 15. Turning the red cross green: the league and environment in the 1970s; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781009702232 / 9781009702232 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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