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Demotic humanitarians: historical perspectives on the global reach of local initiatives, 1940–2017

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This article focuses on over 70 years of demotic humanitarianism from a grassroots perspective. Using the archives of Hudfam and Elizabeth Wilson as well as more recent oral history of local nongovernmental organisations in the West Yorkshire region of the United Kingdom, this paper seeks to cast a new light on the complex network of humanitarianism enabled by local groups. The concept of demotic humanitarians will be used here to denote the modest scale of this work, but also the humanitarians’ self-perception as local agents of internationalism acting within localised networks. From the creation of Hudfam in 1942 (before Oxfam but in Huddersfield) to the birth of the Christian African Relief Trust or local partnerships with Ghana, this article shows how entangled in other social and political initiatives demotic humanitarians were.

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  • Bertrand Taithe, 2019. "Demotic humanitarians: historical perspectives on the global reach of local initiatives, 1940–2017," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(10), pages 1781-1798, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:40:y:2019:i:10:p:1781-1798
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2019.1630815
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    1. Hanrieder, Tine & Galesne, Claire, 2021. "Domestic humanitarianism: the Mission France of Médecins Sans Frontières and Médecins du Monde," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 42(8), pages 1715-1732.

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