... In this 2005 address to the university faculty, Richard Brodhead announces the Financial Aid Initiative and emphasizes the importance of expanding endowment support for need-based financial aid. He discusses Duke’s strengths in interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge in service to society...

... During the years after the war, many anthropologists transformed elements of their wartime service into governmental research, policy, development, or intelligence work. The U.S. State and Defense Departments at times drew on anthropological expertise to implement foreign aid projects...

... The demand for quantifiably measurable data poses significant challenges for global health initiatives that are not centered on clinical activities or the distribution of tangible resources.  Drawing from ethnographic research with Konbit Sante, an American medical aid organization intervening...

... This chapter traces the North-South relations between international aid agencies and feminist movements in Brazil. Drawing on ethnographic research and interviews at both ends of the aid chain, the chapter argues that the surprising appearance in the 1990s of market-based practices among...

... military aggressions, they became subject to a powerful assemblage of humanitarian actors and aid flows that instantiated the prevention and treatment of domestic violence under the banner of GBV as Gaza's singular gender (and violence) concern. Gaza's highly precaritized local women NGOs have been...

... Chapter 5 reveals the conflicts between and among local and national officials, refugees, and international aid agencies over who would control refugee aid and how it would be distributed. As various authorities fought over control of Ngara's refugee camps during the 1960s, they collided...

... The conclusion examines the business of humanitarian aid from the viewpoint of the history of Rwandan refugees in Ngara. It summarizes the book's argument that conflicts over refugee aid and protection reveal the competing and uneven sovereignties that shape the world of nation-states heralded...

... the lens of the gay liberation movement, this chapter shows that Vanguard formalized the web of reciprocities, obligations, and religious practices that animated the kids’ performative economy. Organizers built on these mutual obligations, developed over the decades, to cultivate a politics of mutual aid...