The Politics of Crisis-Making. A focus on the moral economy of humanitarianism in Lebanon
Key information
- Date
- Time
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5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
- Venue
- SOAS Main Building
- Room
- MBRGO1
- Event type
- Seminar
About this event
In The Politics of Crisis-Making. Forced Displacement and Cultures of Assistance in Lebanon, Estella Carpi exposes how the crisis discourse as well as crisis management affect the social and political membership of the displaced.
Her ethnographic research in Lebanon brings to light interactions among aid workers, government officials, internally displaced citizens, migrants and refugees after the 2006 war in Beirut's southern suburbs and during the 2011-2013 arrival of refugees from Syria to the Akkar District (northern Lebanon). By documenting different modalities and traditions of assistance, in the framework of this talk, Carpi will particularly focus on the moral economy of humanitarianism and how this is able to explain unequal nationality-based as well as class-based relationships, opportunities, and worldviews.
About the speaker
Estella Carpi is an Assistant Professor of Humanitarian Studies at University College London. With a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Sydney (2015), she worked for several research and academic institutions in Lebanon, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Türkiye, mostly working on forced displacement, identity politics and humanitarianism.
She is author of The Politics of Crisis-Making. Forced Displacement and Cultures of Assistance in Lebanon (Indiana University Press, 2023).
Organised by the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies