Abstract
On 28 September 2018, an earthquake and tsunami hit West Sulawesi, destroying homes, mosques and livelihoods, displacing 80,000 people and killing at least 2000. Immediately, thousands of volunteer...
Highlights
As Christina Bennett, an international aid policy analyst, notes, ‘gone are the days when you’re going to have a humanitarian sector that comes into a disaster situation with a very heavy footprint and sets up as almost an auxiliary, or a replacement of government services’
At the heart of this moral turn, we argue, is the depoliticization or, as Didier Fassin (2012, 6) puts it, the masking of questions of inequality, domination and injustice
Actors take part in the present-day development encounter with diverse motives, agendas and interpretations that may or may not correspond to this dominant logic of ‘rendering moral’. It is in these politics that we identify a reconfiguration of the role of the state in the region
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ISSN: 0967-828X (Print) 2043-6874 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rsou. To cite this article: Annuska Derks & Minh T. Submit your article to this journal Article views: 908 View related articles View Crossmark data Citing articles: 1 View citing articles.
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