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 →
On the 11th of November 2020, from 9 - 11am (CET), Dr Estella Carpi, Southern Responses to Displacement Research Associate, will present 'The Politics of Crisis-Making: Neither for Rights, Nor for Needs' at The University of Melbourne. The event is open access and you can join here: Event access link (Microsoft Teams) Throughout modern history,... Continue Reading →
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 →
When we ‘sweep away the professional, intimate, spiritual and even socio-economic past of refugees,’ what impact does this have on our understanding and (non)engagement with forcibly displaced people, including displaced religious leaders? In this post, Dr Estella Carpi, Southern Responses Research Associate, draws on her research with Syrian religious leaders in Lebanon who have worked... Continue Reading →
What happens when international agencies intervene without knowledge of the historical, geographical, or relational contexts of the area? Should engagement with and use of local faith leaders as intermediaries become standardised within international aid provision? In March 2019 our Research Associate Dr Estella Carpi participated in a seminar organised by ALNAP-Overseas Development Institute and the... Continue Reading →
Since 2011, aid programmes have been implemented in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey…Read more
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. (Grant agreement No. 715582)
Through a multi-sited case-study of Southern-led responses to displacement from Syria…Read more
This project draws on ethnographic and participatory research with refugees from Syria…Read more
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