Anthro of aid + displacement in MENA. Asst Prof in Anthropology & Intl Development @SussexGlobal. Author of TIME & POWER. Find me on the other site!
Joined March 2016
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It's publication day! TIME AND POWER IN AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP 📗 is now out in the world with @AUCPress, a project that's been >8 years in the making. It's a surreal feeling. 1/7
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📰 @melgatter from @UniOfSussex questions the term resilience in humanitarianism, asking whether it is useful to call refugees resilient and proposing a new way for academics and development practitioners to approach the term.
#OpenAccess in Ethnos >>
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Has Assad's downfall in Syrian changed anything for Syrians displaced in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey? Charlotte Al Khalili and I share the perspectives of people in all three contexts for The Conversation, and the situation is…complicated 👇
theconversation.com/syria-af…
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📰@melgatter from @SussexGlobal questions the term resilience in humanitarianism, asking whether it is useful to call refugees resilient & proposing a new way for academics & development practitioners to approach the term.
Available #OpenAccess in Ethnos:
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Who is resilience for? What is the usefulness of calling refugees resilient? Should we avoid the term altogether? I've attempted to think through these questions in my article in Ethnos, building on important scholarship by thinkers like @JulReid - check it out👇
Resilience for Whom? Resiliency Humanitarianism and Everyday Resistance in a Carceral Camp
Melissa Gatter
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Like clockwork, European countries have started halting the processing of Syrian asylum claims. Is it surprising how quickly otherwise slow immigration systems can implement change if they want to? No! Let's nerd out about time, shall we? 🧵 (1/8)
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Borders aren't about keeping people out, but about distinguishing between people within the borders. Lengthy processes make migrants look like they're a burden, lazy or loitering. (7/8)
theborderchronicle.com/p/no-…
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Pencil down the date: workshop on displacement and colonialism. Key speakers : @FranceskAlbs @jinanbastaki @nahedhabib9 @JosephSchechla @abdallabayyari @sarahdaoud @MohamadQadan @OroubElAbed @SamarNakhle
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The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies @OfficialBrismes is still raising money to support higher education in Gaza, to be used in line with the priorities of the Emergency Committee of Universities in Gaza. Please RT/share/donate if you can: gofundme.com/f/the-brismes-f…
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Today, in a landmark verdict, a jury found government contractor CACI liable for the torture of Iraqi men at Abu Ghraib in 2003-04 and ordered it to pay each of the three plaintiffs $3 million in compensatory damages and $11 million in punitive damages.
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A beatiful piece by Shannon Mattern that matters now more than ever:
"...breakdown is our epistemic and experiential reality. What we really need to study is how the world gets put back together." (2018)
placesjournal.org/article/ma… @PlacesJournal
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Book note--Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency by Melissa Gatter. 2013. Anthropologist Melissa Gatter reveals a power system meant to aid refugees in fact suppresses them and forecloses futures. @melgatter @AUCPress aucpress.com/9781617970979/
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📢 Call for Papers for the #ASA2025 panel 'Catastrophic thinking, and thinking about catastrophe: constructing an anthropology of the ‘end-times’ for the colonised and displaced'
⏰CfP closes 23:59 GMT, 18 November 2024 See below for more info👇
🚨 Anthropologists of catastrophe 🚨 @CharlotteAlKha2 and I want to hear from you! Submit your abstract for our ASA 2025 panel on anthropologies of the 'end-times' by 18 Nov: theasa.org/conferences/asa20…
@theasainfo #ASA2025
