GLBL 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Kony 2012, Teju Cole, Sustainable Development Goals
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Tremendous growth: bllion from donors, 250,000 employed. The good intentions of the aid industry are often overshadowed by propagating these same industries. Humanitarian aid: aid and action designed to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain and protect human dignity during and after emergencies positive outcomes are the exception in humanitarian aid projects does not stop war, it instead intensifies it. Euro-western centrism racist and sexist, trojan horse of colonization. The new humanitarian order and the politics of naming mamdani. The humanitarian order isn"t about politics, it"s about turning citizens of the global order into wards of that global order beneficiaries of the humanitarian order are akin to the recipients of charity. 2000: millenium development goals; were supposed to be reached by 2015. These were updated last october with sustainable development goals.
