Humanitarianism and the quantification of human needs : minimal humanity / Joël Glasman.

By: Glasman, Joël.

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge humanitarian studies.Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2020.Description: xiv, 250 p. 25 cm.ISBN: 9780367222154 (hbk).Subject(s): Humanitarianism | Basic needs | Disaster ReliefDDC classification: 361.25

Contents:

Introduction Minimal humanity - the commensuration of human suffering on a global scale -- Concepts Elements of a genealogy of needology -- Classifications UNHCR and the legibility of refugees in Central Africa -- Artifacts Malnutrition, MUAC, and the materialization of anthropometry -- Standards The Sphere Project and the universalization of the vital minimum after Goma -- Registration Refugees and the emergence of the humanitarian field in Cameroon -- Vulnerability Impartial algorithms and analog malnutrition -- Conclusion Infrastructure of commensurability.

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