Anthropology of aid / Meeting aid workers / 2017-8 Final Event
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- (2016-7) Beyond the label of ‘refugees’
- (2016-7) Making the familiar unfamiliar
- (2017-8) Anthropological perspectives on refugee children
- (2017-8) Why people want refugee status
- (2018-9) An anthropological perspective on the variations of refugee suffering that sheds light onto the required multiplicity of humanitarian aid
- (2018-9) Refugee status: The interdependence of production and destruction
- (2019-2020) How does the Hostile Environment prevent refugees and asylum seekers from creating a fully integrated social life in the UK, and how is this resisted?
- (2019-2020) Challenges for Female Refugees and Asylum Seekers
- (2020-2021) How has the climate crisis affected refugees and asylum seekers?
- (2020-2021) How has Brexit affected family reunification policy in the UK?
- (2021-2022) Deconstructing the Refugee: Understanding both the biological and the social lives of refugees
- (2021-2022) Bare Life in relation to child refugees
- (2022-2023) Aid as a way to govern people in a refugee camp
- (2022-2023) The Road to Resettlement
- Humanitarianism in crisis situations
- (2016-7) Disaster capitalism: An investigation of the NHS crisis
- (2016-7) Immediate humanitarian concerns and long-term ethnographies
- (2017-8) How can an anthropological study of kinship within the context of conflict reveal how different families cope with crisis situations?
- (2017-8) The impact of armed conflict on kinship, identity and family separation
- (2018-9) Technologies in crises: Politics of inequality or empowerment?
- (2018-9) To what extent can neutrality prevail in a state of crisis?
- (2019-2020) How do anthropological studies on the role of compassion, crisis and kinship in humanitarian work help us to understand the Red Cross family tracing service as a form of governance?
- (2019-2020) How anthropological perspectives can improve family tracing and reunification through broadening our understanding of kinship
- Rethinking development
- (2016-7) Two contrasting anthropological approaches to development
- (2016-7) Unintended consequences?: Power, politics and cultural relativism
- (2017-8) Linking development expertise with local lived experience
- (2017-8) The (failing) promise of CSR to deliver development
- (2018-9) Can faith-based organisations offer a different way of development?
- (2018-9) Rethinking the semantics of development
- (2019-2020) Rethinking Philanthropy Within Development
- (2019-2020) Corporate Philanthropy and its ulterior motives
- (2020-2021) How COVID has affected Sudan’s insecurity
- (2020-2021) Rethinking Chinese Development Projects in Africa
- (2021-2022) Rethinking development: intentions, outcomes, and recipient agency
- (2021-2022) Rethinking Development & Female Education Lesson Plan
- (2022-2023) How the pervasiveness of the HIV treatment regime has reinforced HIV stigmatisation in African societies
- (2022-2023) Exploring and Rethinking the Housing and Homelessness Crisis in Manchester
- Beyond the Developing World
- (2016-7) Beyond the binary of ‘developed’ and ‘developing’
- (2016-7) Dialogue through anthropological approaches
- (2017-8) Beyond the developing world: Anthropological perspectives on foodbanks
- (2017-8) How can we understand poverty beyond the developing world?
- (2018-9) How can anthropological perspectives help us understand the Grenfell Tower fire as a humanitarian issue?
- (2018-9) Responsibility of care: who is responsible for the most vulnerable?
- (2019-2020) Not Hired, On-Boarded: Precarious Employment and Shaping the Neoliberal Subject
- (2019-2020) How does an anthropological perspective help us to understand the role of development in Moss Side?
- (2020-2021) Displacement in Lockdown
- (2021-2022) ‘Crisis’ and the Unintended Consequences of Aid
- (2021-2022) Compassion Beyond the Developing World
- (2022-2023) A Crisis of Categorisation: The Evolving Portrayals and Perceptions of Displaced People Over the Course of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis
- (2022-2023) How the treatment of refugees beyond the developing world reduces individuals to a state of liminal bare life
- Professions of ‘doing good’
- (2016-7) Questioning representations
- (2016-7) The moral labour of aid work
- (2017-8) Professions of ‘doing good’: The dangers of voluntourism
- (2017-8) To what extent is it useful to explore ‘doing good’ through the lens of performativity?
- (2018-9) Citizens of aidland: Exploring the subjectivity of aid workers in the field
- (2018-9) Disparities in pay amongst foreign and local aid workers
- (2019-2020) ‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions’: a discussion of the importance of intention in volunteering
- (2019-2020) Negotiating the consequences of ‘Doing Good’: How anthropological perspectives inform Student Development and Community Engagement initiatives at the University of Manchester
- (2020-2021) The Neoliberal discourse driving compassion fatigue in the NHS
- (2020-2021) The consequences of moral and expert authority: obstetric racism
- (2021-2022) The Personal Experiences of Aid Work
- (2021-2022) Immaterial labour in ‘Aidland’
- (2022-2023) Hegemonic Representations and Aid Workers
- (2022-2023) Between a rock and a hard place: the ways in which refugees and aid workers alike navigate agency and identity
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2017-8 Final Event
The final event for the class in the academic year 2017-8 happened on 8th December, 2017. It was a great success! Students first met with their assigned visitors and summarised their blog entries, and then they had an open discussion about humanitarianism, development, the ethics of volunteering, and so on. Students got to speak in depth with two visitors. This was followed by a panel discussion in which the visitors gave pointers about what anthropology students could offer to their types of organisations, and how students can get into this line of work.
I’m already looking forward to next year!
Here are some images from the event:
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