Paternalism beyond Borders

Acknowledgements; About the contributors; Part I. The Boundaries of Paternalism: 1. Only in the ballpark of paternalism: arrogance and liberty limitation in international humanitarian aid Henry S. Richardson; 2. Rethinking paternalism: the meaning of gender and sex in the politics of asylum Didier Fassin; Part II. Paternalism, Old and New: 3. Eurocentric pitfalls and paradoxes of international paternalism: decolonizing liberal humanitarianism 2.0 John M. Hobson; 4. The new international paternalism: international regimes David Chandler; Part III. The Social Relations of Paternalism: 5. Paternalism and peacebuilding: capacity, knowledge, and resistance in international intervention Séverine Autesserre; 6. Enabling or disabling paternalism: (in)attention to gender and women's knowledge, capacity and authority in humanitarian contexts Aisling Swaine; 7. The limits of consent: sex trafficking and the problem of international paternalism Sally Engle Merry and Vibhuti Ramachandran; 8. Modernity at the cutting edge: human rights meets FGM Stephen Hopgood; 9. Humanitarian refusals: Palestinian refugees and ethnographic perspectives on paternalism Ilana Feldman; Conclusion. The world according to paternalism Michael N. Barnett; Index.