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Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality
This prescient Handbook examines how legacies of colonialism, gender, class, and other markers of inequality intersect with contemporary humanitarianism at multiple levels.
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This prescient Handbook examines inequalities in humanitarianism at multiple levels, highlighting the long-lasting impact of colonialism on contemporary power relations.
Silke Roth, Bandana Purkayastha and Tobias Denskus bring together esteemed experts from the global north and south who introduce crucial research ethics frameworks and methodologies in order to study humanitarianism and inequality. Adopting an intersectional approach, this Handbook demonstrates the ways in which race, gender, class and other sources of inequality intersect in relation to a range of contemporary issues including the role of the media and technology, the COVID-19 pandemic, linguistic inequality, trafficking, and refugee protection and assistance. Looking ahead, the contributors stress the need for academics and practitioners to reflect on the inequalities that both underpin and are perpetuated by humanitarian contexts.
Providing a detailed overview of the ways in which inequality has affected the development and transformation of humanitarianism, this Handbook will be essential reading for academics, students and researchers of humanitarian and development studies, international relations, and sociology and social policy. It will also be of interest to public policymakers focussing on humanitarianism and striving for global equality.
Silke Roth, Bandana Purkayastha and Tobias Denskus bring together esteemed experts from the global north and south who introduce crucial research ethics frameworks and methodologies in order to study humanitarianism and inequality. Adopting an intersectional approach, this Handbook demonstrates the ways in which race, gender, class and other sources of inequality intersect in relation to a range of contemporary issues including the role of the media and technology, the COVID-19 pandemic, linguistic inequality, trafficking, and refugee protection and assistance. Looking ahead, the contributors stress the need for academics and practitioners to reflect on the inequalities that both underpin and are perpetuated by humanitarian contexts.
Providing a detailed overview of the ways in which inequality has affected the development and transformation of humanitarianism, this Handbook will be essential reading for academics, students and researchers of humanitarian and development studies, international relations, and sociology and social policy. It will also be of interest to public policymakers focussing on humanitarianism and striving for global equality.
Critical Acclaim
‘This Handbook is an excellent addition to the study of humanitarianism as a multifaceted practice with diverse histories, geographies, and indeed inequalities, unsettling conventional narratives of humanitarianism and decentring traditional Global North actors as the guardians of what it means to do humanitarianism and be a humanitarian. It is a timely intervention as we collectively face the challenges of an uncertain future, ongoing and deepening global inequalities, and demands for justice.’
– Polly Pallister-Wilkins, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
– Polly Pallister-Wilkins, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Contributors
Contributors include: Shweta M. Adur, Shashika Bandara, Paula Banerjee, Junru Bian, Oheneba A. Boateng, Dale Buscher, Shoma Choudhury Lahiri, Elyse Conde, Alistair D. B. Cook, Abeer Dakik, Tobias Denskus, Jennifer Philippa Eggert, Maria Rosa Garrido, Bonaventure Gbétoho Sokpoh, Oscar A. Gómez, Lina Gong, Valérie Gorin, Barbara Gurr, Nina Hansen, Naoko Hashimoto, Liesbet Heyse, Matthew Hunt, Muhammad Makki Kakar, Themrise Khan, Ilan Kelman, Simone Lucatello, Michael Magcamit, Anastassiya Mahon, Salvador Martí i Puig, Alberto Martín Álvarez, Tulani Francis L. Matenga, Rodrigo Mena, Eija Meriläinen, Lwendo Moonzwe Davis, Augusta Nannerini, Anjana Narayan, Lata Narayanaswamy, Katarzyna Nowak, Aoife O’Leary McNeice, Emma Pearce, Margaux Pinaud, Bandana Purkayastha, Silke Roth, Rianka Roy, Priya Singh, Lise-Hélène Smith, Agnieszka Sobocinska, Rita Stephan, Sarah Stroup, Reem Talhouk, Kristina Tschunkert, Margot Tudor, Robin Vandevoordt, Patricia Ward, Josepha Wessels, Olivia Wilkinson, Rafael Wittek, Claudia Youakim, Farhan Navid Yousaf
