Dear colleagues,
We would like to invite submissions to our panel for the 2021 Conference on Humanitarian Studies ( https://conference.ihsa.info/ ), which will take place from 3-5 November 2021 in a hybrid format, allowing for both online and face-to-face participation in Paris.
The Politics of Difference in Humanitarian Practice: Old Realities, New Questionings?
Organisers: Dr. Nora Bardelli and Dr. Myfanwy James
Panel’s abstract
In 2020, there were renewed calls for humanitarian aid to decolonise - to change the power hierarchies embedded in its everyday practices. Everyday humanitarian practice is shaped by, and reproduces, the very forms of inequality that its egalitarian values seek to transcend. Scholars have begun to examine the politics of difference in humanitarianism in more detail: how social categories of difference operate in an industry built on the idea of universal humanity. These studies reveal how different intersectional identities impact on experiences of aid work, whilst institutional practices reproduce hierarchies amongst different staff and populations, reflecting and exacerbating global structures of inequity (Benton 2016; Kothari 2006; Peters 2020; James 2020; Bardelli 2019). Too often, the literature still focuses on international/local as the primary category of distinction, overlooking the intersecting hierarchies of gender, race, class, region which are embedded in humanitarian practices (Read 2018; Benton 2016; Hirsch 2021).
We invite abstracts for 15 minutes presentations that explore these issues, particularly with an ethnographic or historical approach, with a focus on the experiences of people working on ‘national’ staff humanitarian contracts or those interacting with humanitarian regimes (that is, “beneficiaries” of aid programs). This panel is interested in examining how people contest the hierarchical logics intrinsic in humanitarianism and invites authors to explore how these hierarchical practices in the humanitarian governance interact with broader, longer-term structures of inequality in different societies.
The call for papers is now open until September 1st, and you can submit a paper here https://conference.ihsa.info/call-for-papers/
We look forward to receiving your proposals!
Best wishes,
Nora and Myfanwy
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