On Wednesday the 3rd of March at 3pm (GMT) Dr Estella Carpi presents at the 'Sociology Talks Series' at Koc Universitesi, Turkey. Her presentation, 'The Politics of Aid and Aiding in Lebanon and Turkey. What Geography Matters?' draws on her research conducted for the Southern Responses to Displacement project and examines how people respond to... Continue Reading →
Bringing Social Class into Humanitarian Debates: The Case of Northern Lebanon – Part Two The Hidden Role of Social Class
In Part Two of this two-part series examining class-based inequality that can be both ignored and exacerbated by humanitarian programmes and aid workers, Dr Carpi draws on research conducted for the Southern Responses to Displacement project and argues that economic changes brought about by the introduction of a humanitarian economy of consumerism and labour in... Continue Reading →
Humanitarian leadership: developing social capital with affected populations
How can building friendships and social capital between humanitarian actors and local citizens and organisations (in particular, affected populations) help to break the ‘epistemic bubbles’ in which humanitarian actors often operate? Currently, social capital is readily built between humanitarian leaders and agency chiefs, country directors, cluster coordinators, key authorities, and donors. However, humanitarian organisations often adopt... Continue Reading →
No one wants to be the “Global North”? On being a researcher across the North and South.
What are some of the emerging behavioural and ethical tendencies in today’s research economy and what sociological harms can subsequently occur? Drawing on her extensive experience of conducting research in both the ‘global North’ and the ‘global South,’ Southern Responses to Displacement Research Associate, Dr Estella Carpi, examines different ‘hierarchical and alienating’ structures across research... Continue Reading →
Spaces of Transregional Aid and Visual Politics in Lebanon
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 →