Capitalist humanitarianism / Lucia Hulsether.

Author/creator Hulsether, Lucia, 1988- author.
Format Book
PublicationDurham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Descriptionxvi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Interlude One -- May analyze like a capitalist : fair trade and other histories -- Interlude Two -- Ethical vampires : conscious capitalism and its commodity enchantments -- Interlude Three -- Marxists in the microbank : from Solidarity Movement to solidarity lending -- Interlude Four -- Representing inclusion : humans of capitalist humanitarianism -- Interlude Five -- The hunt for yes : archival management and manufactured consent -- Interlude Six -- Hope for the future : reproductive labor in the neoliberal multicultural family.
Abstract "In Capitalist Humanitarianism, Lucia Hulsether reveals how left critiques of capitalism have been capitulated into efforts to reform and rebuilt capitalist institutions. From initiatives in the 1980s such as the fair trade chain Ten Thousand Villages to microfinance programs in Central America, humanitarians in the global North have brought capitalist institutions to the global South in the hope that free market projects can be part of feminist, decolonial, and anti-racist solidarity. Hulsether argues that these capitalist humanitarian projects must be understood through their relationship to Christianity. Writing against what she points to as a misguided attempt to redeem capitalist logics as part of a reparative commitment to transformative worldmaking, Hulsether shows that left critiques have become incorporated into neoliberal logics, making way for new institutional hegemonies that continue to expand racial and neocolonial disposession"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Hulsether, Lucia, 1988- Capitalist humanitarianism. Durham : Duke University Press, 2023 9781478023838
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