Classroom sem	This is mandatory session. Students that do not attend will need to submit a replacement assignment.
Date, time	3 Mar, 15:15 - 17:00
Location	ALC Haga
Teacher	Bart Klem
Slides	Please click here
Reading	Mandatory reading for this class (for suggested reading see below): Hilhorst, Dorothea and Bram Jansen (2010) “Humanitarian space as arena: A perspective on the everyday politics of aid”, Development and Change 41(6): 1117-1139. McGilvray, Dennis and Michelle Gamburd (2010)(eds) Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka. Ethnic and regional dimensions. London and New York: Routledge. Read the introduction (pp 1-16). We won't be discussing this in any detail in this course, but if you are interested in the operational dimensions of disaster response, have a look at the Sphere Handbook (either the online interactive version, or the pdf of the report). Way too much detail to remember, but you may find it useful to get a sense of what these standards are about.
Preparation	For your in-class submission, please answer the following questions: What does the term "humanitarian space" conventionally denote, and what reflections do Hilhorst and Jansen add to this? McGilvray and Gamburd review several theoretical / thematic perspectives (pp 5-11). Which one appeals to you most and why?

I this class, we explore disaster response, with an emphasis on humanitarian aid. Humanitarian aid comprises emergency relief (and rehabilitation) in the context of wars or disasters. It is supposed to a neutral form of aid that subscribes to humanitarian principles - a matter of legally inscribed entitlements.

Suggestions for additional reading

Bankoff, G. (2003) Cultures of Disaster: Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines. London: Routledge Curzon.

Cropp, Joe (2021) The Humanitarian Fix: Navigating Civilian Protection in Contemporary Wars. Abingdon: Routledge.

Duffield, Mark (2013) “Risk management and the bunkering of the aid industry,” Development Dialogue, 58: 21-36.

Fernando, U., and D. Hilhorst. 2006. “Everyday practices of humanitarian aid: Tsunami response in Sri Lanka,” Development in Practice, 16 (3&4): 292–302. 

Hilhorst, D. (ed.)(2013) Disaster, conflict and society in Crisis: Everyday politics of crisis response, pp. 223-240. London: Routledge.

Korf, Benedikt, Shahul Hasbullah, Pia Hollenbach and Bart Klem (2010) “The Gift of Disaster: The Commodification of Good Intentions in Post-tsunami Sri Lanka”, Disasters, 34(S1): S60-S77.

McGilvray, Dennis and Michelle Gamburd (2010)(eds) Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka. Ethnic and regional dimensions. London and New York: Routledge. Other chapters.

Redfield, Peter (2012) “The unbearable lightness of expats: Double binds of humanitarian mobility”, Cultural Anthropology, 27(2): 358-382.

Stirrat, Jock (2006) “Competitive humanitarianism: Relief and the tsunami in Sri Lanka,” Anthropology Today, 22 (5): 11-16.

Stirrat, Jock (2008) “Mercenaries, missionaries and misfits: Representations of development personnel”, Critique of Anthropology, 28(4): 406-425.