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Agnieszka Sobocinska. Saving the World? Western Volunteers and the Rise of the Humanitarian-Development Complex. [Global and International History.] Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2021. x, 318 pp. Ill. £7500. (Paper: £29.99; E-book: $44.99.)

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Agnieszka Sobocinska. Saving the World? Western Volunteers and the Rise of the Humanitarian-Development Complex. [Global and International History.] Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2021. x, 318 pp. Ill. £7500. (Paper: £29.99; E-book: $44.99.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2024

Eva-Maria Muschik
Eva-Maria Muschik*
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Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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E-mail: [email protected]
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International Review of Social History , Volume 69 , Issue 2 , August 2024 , pp. 348 - 351
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis

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References

1 Sobocinska uses the term to refer to “those [widely different] areas of the globe plagued by the legacies of colonialism, irrespective of their politics” (p. 26).

2 I submitted this review in mid-February 2024, before knowing A. Sobocinska well, but have since March 2024 closely collaborated with her in organizing a workshop: https://www.hsozkult.de/searching/id/event-144055?title=historical-challenges-to-international-development&recno=3&q=muschik&sort=&fq=&total=35.

3 Sobocinska, Agnieszka, Visiting the Neighbours: Australians in Asia (Sydney, 2014)Google Scholar.

4 Cooper, Frederick, “Writing the History of Development”, Journal of Modern European History, 8:1 (2010), pp. 5–23, 20CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Cullather, Nick, “Development? It's History”, Diplomatic History, 24:4 (2000), pp. 641–653, 642CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 See Sobocinska's personal website. Available at: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/agnieszka-sobocinska; last accessed 16 February 2024, as well as A. Sobocinska, “Giving and Resisting Aid: The UN FAO Freedom from Hunger Campaign as an Institution and at Ground Level”, paper presented at the International Organizations and the Cold War conference, University of Vienna, 2 June 2022.