Walking the Line: Brokering Humanitarian Identities in Conflict Research

Autor:	Jean De Dieu Hategekimana, Rachael Susan Pierotti, Banga Alfred Lumpali, Ghislain Cimanuka, Milli Lake, C. Lewis
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	AFRICA GENDER POLICY History media_common.quotation_subject 0211 other engineering and technologies RESEARCH Identity (social science) 02 engineering and technology Global politics WOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS Research participant Political science CONFLICT-AFFECTED STATES 050602 political science & public administration CONFLICT media_common 021110 strategic defence & security studies HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATION Human rights Humanitarian aid business.industry 05 social sciences Public relations GENDER INNOVATION LAB 0506 political science Social research NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANZIATION Political Science and International Relations International security HUMANITARIAN AID business Qualitative research
Zdroj:	Civil Wars. 21:200-227
ISSN:	1743-968X 1369-8249
DOI:	10.1080/13698249.2019.1619154
Popis:	Increasingly, academic research in conflict-affected contexts relies on support from humanitarian organizations. Humanitarian organizations constitute sites of study in and of themselves; they partner with academics to roll out surveys or randomized program interventions; and they frequently facilitate security, logistics and transportation for independent researchers. We use a research partnership between IRC, the World Bank, and academic researchers in the UK, the US and eastern DR Congo, to explore the effects of humanitarian affiliation on conflict field research. In investigating when, how and under what conditions humanitarian identities are adopted by researchers (and how these affiliations shape research dynamics) we identify three paradoxes. First, “wearing humanitarian clothes” to facilitate research logistics can both facilitate and constrain access. Second, humanitarian affiliations invoked by researchers to ensure security and protection in volatile research sites can undermine the “insider” status of local staff. Finally, working through humanitarian organizations allows local and international researchers to benefit from the protections and privileges afforded to humanitarian employees without providing any of the services on which privileged access rests. In this article, we map out decisions faced by local and international researchers concerning when to adopt and discard humanitarian identities, and the fraught logistical, ethical and methodological consequences of these decisions.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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