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The curse of the humanitarian narrative

The curse of the humanitarian narrative

“The remedy to the cause of poverty is reduced to a single calculus of saving lives”. This is one of the many lines from The Humanitarian Fable. Saviorism, Race, and Aid, a new book by David Jefferess, which charts the dehumanising communication... Read more.

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