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‘Imposing Aid: Thirty years of emergency assistance to refugees’ | Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2016
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/imposing-aid
Series convenor: Dr Will Jones
Barbara Harrell-Bond's seminal book Imposing Aid was the first independent appraisal of an assistance programme mounted by international agencies in response to an emergency influx of refugees - in this case the Ugandans who spilled over the Sudanese border in the early months of 1982. Since its publication in 1986, it has been widely hailed as a key text in Anthropology and Refugee Studies, with far-reaching implications for policy and theory. In this series, we reflect on the continuing relevance of the themes raised in Imposing Aid, and its enduring influence on the shape of the discipline: the way humanitarian organisations work or do not work, the critical study of how such organisations may be paternalistic or unaccountable, the conflicts of interest and disparities of power which characterise the interactions between refugees and their ostensible helpers, and the place of refugees in the complex order of international emergency relief settings. Thirty years after the publication of Imposing Aid, these issues remain as urgent as ever.
Seminars will be held from 5–6.30pm on Wednesdays, in Seminar Room 3, Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB.
11 May
Camps as containment: a genealogy of the refugee camp
Kirsten McConnachie (Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Warwick)
18 May
TBC
25 May
Are camps good for kids?
Tania Kaiser (Senior Lecturer in Forced Migration Studies, Department of Development Studies, SOAS)
1 June
'Food is the best medicine': displacement, return and good (in)security in the Horn of Africa
Laura Hammond (Reader in Development Studies, Department of Development Studies, SOAS)
Further details online at: http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events
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