Spaces of Aid : How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism.

Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Note to the Reader -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Argument -- Methodology -- The Structure -- 1: Stories from the Field, Stories of 'The Field': How Aid Workers Experience the Space of the Field Mission -- Aid Work as Rite of Passage -- Liminal Spaces, Affective Constraints -- Conclusion: Setting the Stage -- 2: Exploring the Humanitarian Enclave -- Perceptions of Insecurity Among Aid Workers -- The Evolution of Physical Securitization in the Field -- The Compound as the New Archetype of Humanitarianism -- Conclusion -- 3: How the Built Environment Shapes Humanitarian Intervention -- How the Material Matters: A Framework for Analysis -- Auxiliary Space -- The Impact on 'Others' -- The Impact on the Aid Workers: Gated Communities -- Sport Utility Vehicles -- The Grand Hotel -- Conclusion -- 4: Building Home Away from Home: Post-Tsunami Aceh, and the Single-Family House -- Mapping the 'Second Tsunami' -- The Single-Family House -- The Gift of the House -- The House as Commodity -- From Donors to Contractors -- 5: Playing House: Rebuilding the Gulf Coast after Katrina -- The Appeal of the Blank Slate -- Make It Right or Making It Wrong: The Solution of Green Architecture in New Orleans' Lower Ninth -- Imagined Communities: New Urbanism and the Post-Katrina Gulf Coast -- The Katrina Cottage: Emblem of the Reconstruction -- A Shotgun Reconstruction -- Conclusion -- A Tripartite Model of Space -- Implications for Theory and Policy -- Future Research Directions -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

A landmark work that - through analysing the three key symbolic sites of the grand hotel, the SUV and the compound - shows why we urgently need to think differently about humanitarian theory and practice.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.