Saudi Arabia, Humanitarian Aid and Knowledge Production: What do we really know? #MUHUM
Saudi Arabia has one of the largest humanitarian aid budgets in the world. It counts as an ‘emerging’ donor of substantial influence in one of the world’s most…
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Reflections on a Theory of Zakat #MUHUM
This inquiry into the role of “obligatory almsgiving” (zakat) within Muslim humanitarianism presents a theorization of two modes of Islamic charity: the purity ethos and the developmentalist ethos.…
Theorizing Humanitarianism for an Islamic Counterpublic #MUHUM
Closely attending to Muslim theorizations provides an opportunity for social scientists to stop asking such questions as ‘what is so Islamic about Islamic humanitarianism?’ or ‘do Muslim humanitarians…
Re-framing Crime, Violence, and Poverty: new cinematic narratives of Black criminality in Imperial Dreams
Introduction: reframings Redmond (2017) has noted that, in order to garner support for the punitive policies of the War on Drugs, Americans were presented with stories that framed…
Religion in the Age of Development: Encounters in Asia
Religious actors have become increasingly involved in development. Likewise, development actors like the World Bank have also become interested in religion (especially the religion of the communities …
A Note on MUHUM
Muslim Humanitarianism – short MUHUM – is a platform that seeks to foster debate on the complex relationship between charity, philanthropy, humanitarianism, development and Islam. In anthropological a…
Till Motowlansky on Muslim Humanitarianism #Interview
Till Mostowlansky is a Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute in Geneva who was awarded an Ambizione grant from the Swiss…
Roundtable: Comment by Dorothy Noyes #CollaborativeDilemmas
Dorothy Noyes, Professor of English and Comparative Studies at the Ohio State University, responds to the questions Chiara Bortolotto has recently raised in her virtual roundtable on “‘Col…
Virtual roundtable: “Collaborative dilemmas” in the age of uncertainty
“Collaborative dilemmas” was the title of a workshop held last April at EHESS in Paris under the framework of “UNESCO frictions: heritage-making across global governance” in collaboration with…
Roundtable: Answers by Julie Billaud
Are those developments, usually condemned as corrupting us as scholars and leading to the death of pure research, introducing some kind of innovation vis-à-vis established academic work? For…
Roundtable: Answers by Simone Toji
As a researcher who was raised in Brazil, my uncertainty and dilemmas may have a different punch compared to other cases. The context of uncertainty in Brazil includes…
Roundtable: Answers by Chiara Bortolotto
For more than ten years I have been exploring UNESCO policies in the field of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). My interest spans from the uses of culture as…
Roundtable: Answers by Giulia Scalettaris
Are these developments, usually condemned as corrupting us as scholars and leading to the death of pure research, introducing some kind of innovation vis-à-vis established academic work? In…
HSR II: Consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies
In the first of two questions of the second roundtable, human smuggling experts share their views on the (un)intended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies. We assembled a range…
Roundtable II: Responses by Luigi Achilli
What are the unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? From the perspective of media, border authorities, and public opinion, human smuggling is perceived as an exploita…
Roundtable II: Responses by Alexandra Ricard-Guay
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Alexandra Ricard-Guay is a Research Associate at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre…
Roundtable II: Responses by Peter Tinti & Tuesday Reitano
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Migrant smugglers exist because there is demand for people to move irregularly or illegally across border…
Roundtable II: Responses by Robert Barsky
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Although aimed at reducing the suffering and risk incurred by migrants, forced and otherwise, most anti-s…
The human smugglers roundtable is back!
While irregular migration is a global phenomenon, the mechanisms that allow for it to occur have received scant scholarly attention. Depictions of irregular migrants from war-torn and economically…
Roundtable II: Responses by Luca Rainieri
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Within fragile countries of the European neighbourhood and extended neighbourhood, anti-smuggling and ant…
Roundtable II: Responses by Jared P. Van Ramshorst
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies are intended to disrupt and deter cross-border smuggling and…
Roundtable II: Responses by David Danelo
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Let’s consider two continents. At the beginning of 2015, Europe prided itself on the freedom of movement …
Roundtable II: Responses by Caitlin Blanchfield & Nina Valerie Kolowratnik
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? Anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies have far reaching impacts in borderlands communities. For th…
Roundtable II: Responses by Wendy Vogt
What are the intended/unintended consequences of anti-smuggling and anti-trafficking policies? It is widely estimated that hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked in Mexico each year. Since 200…