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Capitalist Humanitarianism
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The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades---to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the Left's critiques but incorporated them for capitalist expansion. Venture funds expose their ties to slavery and pledge to invest in racial equity. Banks pitch microloans as a path to indigenous self-determination. Fair-trade brands narrate consumption as an act of feminist solidarity with women artisans in the global South. In Capitalist Humanitarianism Lucia Hulsether examines these projects and the contexts of their emergence. Blending historical and ethnographic styles, and traversing intimate and global scales, Hulsether tracks how neoliberal self-critique creates new institutional hegemonies that, in turn, reproduce racial and neocolonial dispossession. From the archives of Christian fair traders to luxury social entrepreneurship conferences, from US finance offices to Guatemalan towns flooded with their loan products, from service economy desperation to the internal contradictions of social movements, Hulsether argues that capitalist humanitarian projects are fueled as much by a profit motive as by a hope that racial capitalism can redeem the losses that accumulate in its wake.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Capitalist Humanitarianism
- Interlude One
- One. May Analyze like a Capitalist: Fair Trade and Other Histories
- Interlude Two
- Two. Ethical Vampires: Conscious Capitalism and Its Commodity Enchantments
- Interlude Three
- Three. Marxists in the Microbank: From Solidarity Movement to Solidarity Lending
- Interlude Four
- Four. Representing Inclusion: Humans of Capitalist Humanitarianism
- Interlude Five
- Five. The Hunt for Yes: Archival Management and Manufactured Consent
- Interlude Six
- Six. Hope for the Future: Reproductive Labor in the Neoliberal Multicultural Family
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index