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2016-7 Final event<\/h1>\n

2016-7<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the last lecture, we welcomed 5 professionals in the fields of development and humanitarianism. They were from: (1) the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit; (2) the British Red Cross, International Family Tracing Service; (3) the Independent Commission for Aid Impact; (4) Oxfam; and (5) the Student Development & Community Engagement office at the University of Manchester.<\/p>\n

The visitors and students first worked in small groups. The students shared what they had learned throughout the semester about anthropological analyses and the visitors responded based on their experiences as aid workers. The discussions were lively and no one wanted to stop when it was time! In the second half of the event, the visitors each spoke about what they thought anthropology students could offer to development and humanitarian work, and how students could enter the profession.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes anthropology seems far removed from \u2018the real world\u2019 and the practical concerns of, for example, aid workers. The event in April and the steps leading up to it helped students and the invited professionals work together through some answers to the question \u2018How can anthropological analyses help us understand development and humanitarian work better?\u2019 We might never reach a final conclusion but asking the question and exploring responses together was very much in the spirit of the anthropological endeavour.<\/p>\n

Here are some words from students, reflecting on the project:<\/p>\n

Iona Walker<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the \u2018crisis\u2019 group, we spent a lot of time focusing on the efforts of organisations such as MSF, especially in relation to the immediate necessities of medical care, shelter and nourishment through the framework of \u2018bare life\u2019. For example, we talked about the perception of medical intervention in crises as morally pure alongside the process of triage necessitating the prioritisation of certain bodies at the expense of others (Redfield 2013)\u2026 However, upon meeting Anna Letizia from the British Red Cross, I became aware of the irony of my own position and our blog post. Letizia works as a family tracer, reuniting families with lost loved ones after crises. Our group had become so obsessed with the concept of \u2018bare life\u2019 that we we did not fully consider that there is more to humanitarian crisis response than managing bodies. In Letizia\u2019s words: \u2018what comes next after bare life? Family\u2019. I felt that our group had disregarded other ways that humanitarian actors engage in aid work, especially in the long term. Letizia\u2019s impassioned call for anthropologists to contribute to her work highlighted the importance of holistic humanitarian efforts as well as a lack of anthropological analyses where it has the potential to do enormous good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

References cited:<\/p>\n

Redfield, P. (2013) Life in Crisis: the Ethical Journey of Doctors without Borders<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press.<\/p>\n

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Sebastian Notarmarco Pope<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Lewis\u2019 (2014) argument in his article \u2018Heading South\u2019 is the concept that I have found most helpful to understand out topic of \u2018NGOs\u2019. Lewis unpacks the historical dichotomy within the Third Sector between NGOs working in the \u2018developing\u2019 world and non-profit organisations working in the \u2018developed\u2019 world\u2026 Lewis proposes that this binary approach should be reconsidered because there are shared problems in both the \u2018developed\u2019 world and the \u2018developing\u2019 world, such as poverty. He proposes that in this increasingly globalised and interconnected world, it could be beneficial to share practice and knowledge in order to tackle these shared problems\u2026 It was interesting to hear Graham Whitham\u2019s (policy advisor for Oxfam) point of view on how knowledge and practice could be shared between those working in the \u2018developing\u2019 world and those working in the \u2018developed\u2019 world. He highlighted that there still exists a divide between those working in the \u2018developed\u2019 and the \u2018developing\u2019 world\u2026 However, Graham did explain that organisations like Oxfam and Save the Children now have projects both in the \u2018developed\u2019 world and in the \u2018developing\u2019 world. This means that there is more scope for the sharing of knowledge and practice in order to tackle shared problems. Interestingly, this is happening more and more with such organisations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

References cited:<\/p>\n

Lewis, D. 2014. \u2018Heading South: Time to Abandon the \u201cParallel Worlds\u201d of International Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) and Domestic Third Sector Scholarship?\u2019, VOLUNTAS<\/em>, 25(5), pp. 1132\u20131150.<\/p>\n

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Alexandra Wood<\/strong><\/p>\n

A concept I found useful for understanding our group topic of \u2018refugees and asylum seekers\u2019 was legibility. Legibility refers to how governments manage populations and maintain social order through making persons \u2018legible\u2019. For example, documents are used as a power mechanism to control people and borders (see Foucault 1979 cited in Malkki 1995: 170)\u2026 In the blog post we discussed the example of Mohammad, a case study on the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit\u2019s (GMIAU) website. He was unable to gain legal access to the UK due to the absence of marriage certificates, passports and DNA evidence. This illustrates Foucault\u2019s statement as it depicts how documents are techniques of power vital for moving through border controls and offering the potential for access to citizen\u2019s rights and a new life\u2026 When we met Denise McDowell from GMIAU, she expanded on this and explained their involvement in helping teenagers who are viewed as adults by officials because they look older than they are. I found this comment insightful as it highlights the significance of the boundary between child and adult in the asylum process and how being a child triggers a very different response to being an adult. It made me reflect on the way the system needs to be improved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

References cited:<\/p>\n

Malkki, L. (1995) Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees and Tanzania<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n

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