What are humanitarian actors trying to bypass, remove, enhance or achieve by emphasising the importance of intermediaries in their sector? In this blog post our Research Associate Dr Estella Carpi discusses the role of intermediaries in the field of humanitarian aid provision in the Lebanese context, especially in the framework of the Syrian refugee crisis.... Continue Reading →
This piece is posted as part of the blog series, Thinking through the Global South. You can read the series here. In this blog post Dr Estella Carpi examines the impact of the structural relationships between the Global North and Global South and puts forward the concept of ‘Southism’. This term is used to describe... 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
Southern Responses to Displacement 