Aid providers can often mark 'their' humanitarian space with logos, symbols and icons. This photo essay by Southern Responses to Displacement's Research Associate, Dr Estella Carpi, examines the 'visuality' of different forms of humanitarian branding in local spaces and, in line with one of Southern Responses to Displacement's main aims to examine refugees’ experiences, perceptions... Continue Reading →
Who is empowered?
In this piece, Tessa Ubels traces the use of the word ‘empowerment’ within the context of humanitarian responses to refugees in Lebanon. Drawing on her fieldwork in Beirut, and applying Deepa Narayan-Park’s conceptual framework, Tessa critically assesses the effectiveness of the focus on ‘empowerment’ within the humanitarian network of international and local organisations responding to... Continue Reading →