AM Fechter, A Schwittay - Third World Quarterly, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The introduction to this collection brings together, under the umbrella terms of citizen aid and grassroots humanitarianism, interdisciplinary research on small-scale, privately funded …
J Bian - Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 2022 - Springer
This paper aims to explore the ways which expertise is covertly racialized in the contemporary humanitarian aid sector. While there are considerable discussions on the …
E Pascucci - Environment and Planning A: Economy and …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent research has highlighted the relevance of spaces of international aid and development as sites where global politics materializes. However, the position of local aid …
The distinct subject positions of “beneficiaries” and “aid workers” pervade global aid vernacular, the grey development literature, and the field of development studies, but this …
S Roth, M Luczak-Roesch - Information, Communication & Society, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The role that technologies have historically played in producing and reproducing global inequalities is well documented. Although technological innovation is associated with …
The Vulnerable Humanitarian challenges the prevalence of stress and burnout culture within the aid sector, laying bare the issues of power, agency, security and wellbeing that continue …
R van Voorst - Third World Quarterly, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper discusses practices and paradigms that expatriate and national humanitarian aid workers use to deal with major problems they encounter in their daily work. It views …
Lauren Carruth's Love and Liberation tells a new kind of humanitarian story. The protagonists are not volunteers from afar but rather Somali locals caring for each other …
P Ward - Current Sociology, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Humanitarian aid stakeholders increasingly call for localisation: to ensure aid projects utilise, and are informed by, local actors and their 'local knowledge'. This article explores …