The Selfish Altruist: Relief Work in Famine and WarRoutledge, 17/06/2013 - 240 من الصفحات Provides an analysis of some of the most traumatic situations involving famine and war of the last two decades, helping us to understand what it takes to be an aid worker and how important humanitarian action is today. Famine and war evoke strong emotional reactions, and for most people there is a limited amount they can do. But the relief worker has to convert emotional responses into practical action and difficult choices - whom to help and how. Their own feelings have to motivate action for others. But can they separate out their own selfish feelings and prejudices in such an emotive climate? How do they avoid being partial among those they are helping? Are they motivated by altruistic concern, or the power they experience or the attention they receive? Tony Vaux brings over 20 years experience as one of Oxfam's leading emergency managers to the exploration of the conflicts between subjective impulses and objective judgements and the dilemmas relief workers contend with. |
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... sense of altruistic concern, but other feelings of which we would rather not be conscious. Maybe a little smugness because the same thing has not happened to us. Perhaps even a sense of superiority, crediting ourselves with cleverness ...
... sense of altruistic concern, but other feelings of which we would rather not be conscious. Maybe a little smugness because the same thing has not happened to us. Perhaps even a sense of superiority, crediting ourselves with cleverness ...
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... sense of power and to overlook the capacity of those we help. We may project our own sense of victimization onto those we are supposed to help and may fight our battles through their suffering. We boost our own confidence by being ...
... sense of power and to overlook the capacity of those we help. We may project our own sense of victimization onto those we are supposed to help and may fight our battles through their suffering. We boost our own confidence by being ...
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... sense of fixed public morality. Old concepts of 'duty' and 'social responsibility', which perhaps reached their height (in the UK, at least) during World War II, have been deeply eroded. The socialist ideology of the 1960s and 1970s no ...
... sense of fixed public morality. Old concepts of 'duty' and 'social responsibility', which perhaps reached their height (in the UK, at least) during World War II, have been deeply eroded. The socialist ideology of the 1960s and 1970s no ...
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... crises and organizing responses in conjunction with colleagues in field offices and in the Oxford headquarters, where I was based. I tried to make sense of it by looking back at old records and 6 THE SELFISH ALTRUIST.
... crises and organizing responses in conjunction with colleagues in field offices and in the Oxford headquarters, where I was based. I tried to make sense of it by looking back at old records and 6 THE SELFISH ALTRUIST.
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Relief Work in Famine and War Tony Vaux. sense of it by looking back at old records and my own reports. I read some of ... sense of loss and the devaluation of life. The suffering of the body and the mind cannot be distinguished from each ...
Relief Work in Famine and War Tony Vaux. sense of it by looking back at old records and my own reports. I read some of ... sense of loss and the devaluation of life. The suffering of the body and the mind cannot be distinguished from each ...
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A Golden Age of Humanitarianism? | 43 |
Impartiality and Selfrespect | 69 |
Vulnerability and Power | 93 |
Pride and Principle | 115 |
Emotion and Order | 137 |
Responsibility and Rights | 159 |
Mans Inhumanity | 183 |
Chapter 9 The Selfish Altruist | 201 |
Notes on the Sources | 213 |
Index | 224 |
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