Humanitarian Contexsts and Emergent Peripheries. International Cooperation and Contemporary Nomadisms

The world of humanitarian intervention and cooperation is a complex and vast archipelago nowadays, which has been developing progressively since the end of the Second World War; it is one of the phenomena that mark the complex dynamics characterising globalisation processes. One of the peculiarities and effects of globalisation is the production it entails of new forms of nomadism and “intentional” cultural hybridism. As I shall illustrate further referring to the case of former Yugoslavia, humanitarian intervention and international cooperation, which contribute to the construction of contexts characterised by the weaving and comparison of logics, representations, and interests of various social players, entail activating negotiation, mediation and cultural hybridisation processes; therefore, they are the object of growing attention for anthropologists.