Walking the Line: Brokering Humanitarian Identities in Conflict Research

doi:10.1080/13698249.2019.1619154

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Walking the Line: Brokering Humanitarian Identities in Conflict Research

dc.contributor.author	Lewis, Chloe
dc.contributor.author	Banga, Alfred
dc.contributor.author	Cimanuka, Ghislain
dc.contributor.author	de Dieu Hategekimana, Jean
dc.contributor.author	Lake, Milli
dc.contributor.author	Pierotti, Rachael
dc.date.accessioned	2019-10-22T20:43:47Z
dc.date.available	2019-10-22T20:43:47Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.description.abstract	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.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Civil Wars
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/32602
dc.identifier.issn	1369-8249
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/32602
dc.publisher	Taylor and Francis
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subject	HUMANITARIAN AID
dc.subject	NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANZIATION
dc.subject	HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATION
dc.subject	CONFLICT-AFFECTED STATES
dc.subject	CONFLICT
dc.subject	RESEARCH
dc.subject	GENDER INNOVATION LAB
dc.subject	AFRICA GENDER POLICY
dc.subject	WOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS
dc.title	Walking the Line	en
dc.title.subtitle	Brokering Humanitarian Identities in Conflict Research	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.associatedcontent	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13698249.2019.1619154 Journal website (version of record)	en
okr.date.disclosure	2021-03-19
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Journal Article
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.externalcontent	External Content
okr.identifier.doi	10.1080/13698249.2019.1619154
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/32602
okr.journal.nbpages	200-27
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.topic	Conflict and Development::Conflict and Fragile States
okr.topic	Science and Technology Development::Research and Development
okr.topic	Social Development::Civil Society
okr.unit	AFRGI
okr.volume	21(2)