Handbook Humanitarianism and Inequality

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Welcome to the resource page of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality published in February 2024!

Over the coming weeks and months I will add individual posts for each chapter, highlighting the abstract, main conclusions and further information about the author(s) and their work.

Table of content Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality

Introduction: humanitarianism and inequality - a re-orientation - Silke Roth, Bandana Purkayastha, and Tobias Denskus

Part I Historical and (Geo)political dimensions of humanitarianism

Humanitarianism and colonialism - Aoife O’Leary McNeice

Humanitarianism and the global Cold War, 1945–1991 - Margot Tudor

Humanitarianism and the new wars: humanitarianism, security, and

Securitization - Michael Magcamit and Anastassiya Mahon

Humanitarianism, development and peace: a southern perspective - Priya Singh and Paula Banerjee

Localization and the humanitarian sector - Claudia E. Youakim and Rita Stephan

Human rights and humanitarianism - Bandana Purkayastha

Part II Varieties of humanitarian organizations and actors

Humanitarian organizations: behemoths and butterflies - Sarah Stroup

Faith actors in humanitarianism: dynamics and inequalities - Jennifer Philippa Eggert and Olivia Wilkinson

Diaspora assistance - Anjana Narayan and Lise-Hélène Smith

Political solidarity movements and humanitarianism: lessons from Catalonia, Spain (1975–2020) - Salvador Martí Puig and Alberto Martín Álvarez

Subversive humanitarianism - Robin Vandevoordt

Citizen’s groups and grassroots humanitarianism - Shoma Choudhury Lahiri

Humanitarianism and the military - Silke Roth

PART III Intersectuonal perspectives on humanitarians and communities

Race, racialisation, and coloniality in the humanitarian aid sector - Lata Narayanaswamy

Humanitarian organizations as gendered organizations - Rianka Roy

Sexuality and humanitarianism: colonial ‘hauntings’ - Shweta M. Adur

Class matters in humanitarianism - Patricia Ward and Junru Bian

Humanitarianism and disability - Dale Buscher and Emma Pearce

Part IV Persisting and newly emerging issues

Media representations of humanitarianism - Valérie Gorin

Humanitarianism and pandemics - Tulani Francis L. Matenga and Lwendo Moonzwe Davis

Humanitarian technologies - Reem Talhouk

Linguistic inequality in the humanitarian sector: unravelling English-centric multilingualism - Maria Rosa Garrido

Climate change, disasters and humanitarian action - Ilan Kelman and Eija Meriläinen

Refugee protection and assistance - Naoko Hashimoto

Trafficking in persons, long-term vulnerabilities, and humanitarianism - Farhan Navid Yousaf and Muhammad Makki Kakar

Part V Regions

Humanitarianism and Native America - Barbara Gurr

Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Regions - Agnieszka Sobocinska

International humanitarianism in East Asia - Alistair D.B. Cook, Lina Gong, Oscar A. Gómez

West Asia and North Africa - Josepha Wessels

Africa’s long fight for humanitarian self-sufficiency - Oheneba A. Boateng

The Latin American experience: inequality’s role in shaping humanitarianism - Oscar A. Gómez, Simone Lucatello, and Rodrigo Mena

Varieties of European humanitarianism - Silke Roth and Tobias Denskus

Part VI Methods and knowledge production

Humanitarian research ethics and the ethics of research in humanitarian Settings - Shashika Bandara, Elyse Rafaela A. Conde, Abeer Dakik, and Matthew Hunt

Archives and historical perspectives in researching humanitarianism - Katarzyna Nowak

Quantitative methods - Liesbet Heyse, Nina Hansen, and Rafael Wittek

Power dynamics in the use of qualitative methods in humanitarianism - Margaux Pinaud, Kristina Tschunkert, and Augusta Nannerini

Discussing inequalities in evaluation of humanitarian action - Bonaventure Gbétoho Sokpoh with Tobias Denskus

Pracademvism – forever unequal or the new nexus in global development and humanitarianism - Themrise Khan

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