1st Edition
Humanitarian Aid in Post-Soviet Countries An Anthropological Perspective
By Laetitia Atlani-Duault
Copyright 2008
158 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
160 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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An anthropologist among aid workers. Her objective: to study that exotic tribe, humanitarian and development workers, along with their state and non-state partners, as they "export democracy" to post-soviet countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Her method: to join the tribe for ten years. From New York to Alma-Ata, by way of Geneva and Baku, Laëtitia Atlani-Duault provides both an... Read more
1. The First Step 1.1 New York, New York 1.2 Good Governance and HIV 2. The Legacy 2.1 Caucasus and Central Asia 2.2 The HIV/AIDS Epidemic 3. Negotiating Assistance 3.1 Advocacy 3.2 In Search of Partners 3.3 Negotiating in Order to Help 4. White, Red and Grey 4.1 White 4.2 Red 4.3 Grey. Conclusion
Biography
Laëtitia Atlani-Duault is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University Nanterre Paris X, France and a frequent consultant with humanitarian and development aid agencies in Central Asia and the Caucasus, Eastern Europe and Asia. She is the author of Au bonheur des autres. Anthropologie de l’aide humanitaire (Société d'Ethnologie, 2005).
'...the author is to be commended for her innovative approach to investigating the implications of development aid policy'.- University of Birmingham CLAIRE WILKINSON, Europe-Asia Studies
