Is it ever possible to separate humanitarian action from politics? Drawing on the experience of both practitioners and researchers, this book is an essential guide to the thorny interplay between what are too often considered as separate worlds.
SPEAKERS:
Femke Mulder.
Research Fellow at the Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London. Her research focuses on localisation and community participation in humanitarian, disaster, and development contexts. Her interest lies in exploring if and how government agencies and non-governmental organisations collaborate with local communities to address complex challenges. Specifically, she examines the roles of communication, knowledge management, participatory technologies, and data in these relationships.
Ayesha Siddiqi.
Doctor Ayesha Siddiqi is currently Assistant Professor in Human Geography of Cambridge University. She is a postcolonial geographer whose research examines mainly how disaster risks are produced and lived on the margins of the postcolony.
Juan Ricardo Aparicio.
Associate Professor of the Department of Languages and Culture at the Universidad de los Andes where he currently teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on critical theory in Social Sciences, on the Cultural Studies’ theoretical genealogies and on those traditions of Latin-American Critical thought. Articulated to these theoretical trajectories are his research interest on the humanitarian government, internally displaced persons, development, social movements, the State and the posconflict scenarios.
MODERATOR:
Gabriela Villacís Izquierdo.
PhD researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
