From humanitarianism to humanitarianization: Intimacy, estrangement, and international aid in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina

• DOI: 10.1111/amet.12386
• Publication Date: 2016-11-22T05:48:31Z
• Authors: ANDREW C. GILBERT
• Keywords: Humanitarian Aid; Limiting; Christian ministry

ABSTRACT In 2002, Bosnia and Herzegovina was the site of massive housing‐reconstruction projects run by international aid organizations as part a plan to move refugees back their prewar homes. Alongside usual technical tasks such projects, workers spent considerable time effort establishing stabilizing categorical distinction between things humanitarian political. Analysis these efforts one organization reveals often‐overlooked social cultural work necessary maintain field operation, demonstrating that status is never more than provisionally settled. This unstable, provisional nature action constitutes an underexplored dynamic shaping limiting responses suffering need. [ humanitarianism , politics ethics refugee return ] Tokom 2002. godine, međunarodne organizacije u Bosni i Hercegovini organizovale su masovne obnove kuća kako bi ostvarile povratka izbjeglica njihove predratne domove. Pored uobičajnih tehničkih zadataka vezanih za ovakve projekate, zaposleni ovim organizacijama proveli mnogo vremena truda na uspostavljanju utvrđivanju kategoričkih razlika između humanitarnog političkog. Analiza ovih napora, koju je sprovela jedna od tih organizacija, daje uvid često previđen društveni kulturni rad koji neophodan da se humanitarno djelovanje održi, ukazujući humanitarni projekata pomoći uvijek samo privremen. Ova nestabilna, privremena priroda djelovanja sastavni dio nedovoljno istražene dinamike koja oblikuje ograničava odgovore međunarodnih organizacija patnju potrebu. humanitarizam politika etika međunarodna humanitarna pomoć povratak Bosna Hercegovina