Project description
Emotions and humanitarian response to the Malian crisis
Emotional bonds between refugees shape both their family dynamics and political reactions to aid, as revealed during the Malian crisis in the Sahel. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the HUMEPI project will analyse the humanitarian response to the crisis, focusing on the perspectives of Kel Tamasheq refugee women in Mauritania. By exploring the interactions between refugees and humanitarian actors, the project will address challenges related to humanitarianism, trust, and legitimacy. It will contribute to theoretical advancements in humanitarian studies, examine the role of emotions and intimacy in these contexts, and develop innovative methodologies.
Objective
Humanitarianism, Emotions and the Politics of Intimacy - HUMEPI - proposes an innovative analysis of the emotions that receiving aid triggers in the refugee population, and how these emotional engagements shape the intimacy of refugees’ families and their political response to the humanitarian apparatus - the politics of intimacy. It analyses the humanitarian reply to the Malian crisis in the Sahel, a security and humanitarian hot-topic for Africa and Europe alike, from the perspective of Kel Tamasheq refugees women in Mauritania. By producing novel, grounded and generalisable knowledge on the encounter between refugees and humanitarian actors, HUMEPI ambitiously addresses compelling societal challenges, pertaining to the role of humanitarianism, trust and legitimacy. It leans on the excellence of two research institutions - IHEID (Switzerland) and UNA (Mauritania) - and on the long-term humanitarian expertise of the NGO CISP (Italy) in Mauritania. HUMEPI’s objectives are to: contribute to theory-building in the study of humanitarianism (O1); explore the role of emotions and the politics of intimacy towards humanitarianism at meso/micro levels (O2); design innovative methodological approaches in the study of humanitarianism (O3). The plan envisages an intensive theoretical, methodological and communicative training (WP2/WP4→O3), a Mauritanian 4-months secondment, divided between UNA and CISP, and fieldwork among Kel Tamasheq refugees women, with whom I hold a decade-long research relationship (WP3→O2), and a thorough analysis/writing schedule (WP4→O1), correlated with an accurate DEC Plan (WP5). HUMEPI main goals are to inform and build novel much-needed humanitarian approaches, promote accurate narratives about refugees’ perspectives, humanitarian practice and the Malian crisis among the public and political spheres, while also being an invaluable opportunity for my academic and professional development, in line with MSCA’s scope to form future European excellence.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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Switzerland
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