1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Philanthropy and Humanitarianism
Chapter 1 – Introduction. Monopoly Philanthropy and the Humanitarian New World Order
Katharyne Mitchell and Polly Pallister-Wilkins
Part 1: Philanthropy, Humanitarianism, and Political Economy
Chapter 2 – Neoliberalism, Philanthropy, and Humanitarianism: Pragmatic or Faustian Bargains?
Michael Barnett
Chapter 3 – Social Impact Investing
Emily Rosenman
Chapter 4 – Universal Basic Income
Stephen Young
Chapter 5 – Labor
Elisa Pascucci
Chapter 6 – Political Economy of Educational Philanthropy: From Venture Philanthropy to Digital Privatization
Kenneth J. Saltman
Chapter 7 – Immunizing Against Access? Philanthrocapitalist COVID Vaccines and the Preservation of Patent Monopolies
Matthew Sparke and Orly Levy
Chapter 8 – Philanthrocapitalism Seen from South Africa: Bill Gates’ Charity Turns to Tyranny, Misfired Silver Bullets, and Climate Vandalism
Patrick Bond, Liepollo Lebohang Pheko, and Alex Lenferna
Part 2: Humanitarianism, Development, and Humanitarian Developments
Chapter 9 – Humanitarianism and the Non-European world
Beste İşleyen
Chapter 10 – Design: The Colonial Imaginary of Humanitarian Good(s)
Mahmoud Keshavarz
Chapter 11 – Nigeria and the Humanitarian International: From Biafra to Boko Haram
Michael J. Watts
Chapter 12 – Neither "Philanthropy" nor "Development": A Tale of Two Buzzwords
Jorge Garcia-Arias and Juanjo Mediavilla
Chapter 13 – Careful Killing: Humanitarian Warfare and the Politics of Precision Violence
Richard Nisa
Chapter 14 – Humanitarianism through Ubuntu Philosophy
Michael Onyebuchi Eze
Chapter 15 – Celebrity: A Key Concept for Understanding the Power of "Helping"
Lisa Ann Richey
Part 3: Philanthro-Humanitarianism: Projects, Problems, and Practices
Chapter 16 – Metrics, Legibility, and the Logics of Governance in Philanthropy and Humanitarian Aid: A Politics of Knowledge Approach
Jaimie Morse
Chapter 17 – Modernism and Technology in Humanitarian Action
Tom Scott-Smith
Chapter 18 – The Spirit of Climate Philanthropy
Edouard Morena
Chapter 19 – "Obstruction"
William Plowright
Chapter 20 – Nation-Building and Its Exclusions: Elite Philanthropy and the Limits of Social Reform
Adam Saifer and Arun Kumar
Chapter 21 – Philanthropy in France and Colonial Haiti: Bienfaisance, Paternalism, and Race
Erica Johnson Edwards
Chapter 22 – Humanitarian Futures
Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Hanno Brankamp, Elisa Pascucci, James Smith, Lewis Turner, Tammam Aloudat, and William Plowright
Biography
Katharyne Mitchell is dean of the social sciences and a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Polly Pallister-Wilkins is a political geographer and associate professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Amsterdam and is a co-editor of Geopolitics.
