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New Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Charity: Good Intentions on the Road to Help

Providing humanitarian aid has become a multibillion-dollar global enterprise, involving government and nonprofit organizations as well as private donors spanning international borders and political jurisdictions. How has the distribution and implementation of humanitarian aid changed with the increase in dollars available from private donors flowing through international nonprofit organizations? To what extent do foreign aid organizations create knowledge that proliferates assumptions of their own culture rather than promote the knowledge indigenous to the location being served? Finally, what role does the media play in this creation of knowledge? In New Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Charity: Good Intentions on the Road to Help, Michael Mascarenhas investigates the privatization of humanitarian aid and the nature of philanthropy in an increasingly global society where media coverage is constant. Mascarenhas is also the author of Where the Waters Divide (Mascarenhas, 2012) and other publications concerning environmental sociology and environmental inequality and justice. In New Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Charity, the author extends his thinking on inequality and justice and claims that the unprecedented rise of the nonprofit sector’s involvement in the global community facilitates the perpetuation of global capitalism. He also challenges the assumption that neoliberal capitalism is the only answer to global poverty. The premise of the book is thoroughly outlined in the introduction to the volume, where Mascarenhas illustrates the progression of global humanitarian efforts during disasters such as the 2004 South Asian tsunami and 2010 earthquake in Haiti. From relief to restoration and recovery, the author reports that private corporations respond increasingly to disaster through