HCRI's Director of Research, Dr Tanja Müller publishes new paper The ‘German children’ of Mozambique:long-term legacies of a socialist educational experiment. Tanja's latest article is on citizenship formation and socialist-inspired values based on ethnographic...
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A game of hide and seek: gendered ethnographies of the everyday state after communal violence in Ahmedabad, Western India
HCRI's Dr Rubina Jasani's latest paper analyses the gendered experience of the state for the Muslim survivors of violence in Gujarat in 2002. In examining memories of loss and suffering, this paper shows the contrasting and shifting ways in which the state is...
Madness in International Relations – new book from HCRI’s Dr Alison Howell
Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with questionable effects. View...
Afghanistan’s Price – HCRI’s Dr Howell writes leading essay in The Literary Review of Canada
HCRI's Dr Alison Howell writes a critically acclaimed leading essay "Afghanistan’s Price" for The Literary Review of CanadaView article http://reviewcanada.ca/essays/2011/11/01/afghanistan-s-price/Editor of the edition writes:This month's essayist, Alison...
‘Free World? The Campaign to Save the World’s Refugees, 1956 – 1963’ – New book by Professor Peter Gatrell
'Free World? The Campaign to Save the World's Refugees, 1956 - 1963' is a major contribution to the transnational history of humanitarianism in the postwar world.Peter Gatrell shows how and why the UN, NGOs, governments and individuals embarked on a unique campaign,...
Sovereignty, Security, Psychiatry: Liberation and the Failure of Mental Health Governance in Iraq
Sovereignty, Security, Psychiatry: Liberation and the Failure of Mental Health Governance in Iraq - Dr Alison Howell - article in Security Dialogue vol. 41, no. 4, August 2010Security Dialogue article Related Contact Us +44 (0) 161 306 6000...
Gaza Flotilla: Humanitarian or Political? – Commentary by Dr Rony Brauman, HCRI Director
"Was the flotilla boarded by the Israeli army on a "humanitarian" or "political" mission? Is there a "humanitarian crisis" in Gaza or not? The answers to the questions everyone has been asking over the last few days say nothing about the situation itself but do tell...
Interview with Professor Bertrand Taithe, HCRI Executive Director
Podcast of interview "Humanitarianism, global communities and the self" broadcast on Counterpoint "People are far more aware of… subtle differences that emerge culturally, that we shouldn’t take for granted that the person you come to help is like you necessarily,...
Haiti earthquake: what priorities?
This OpEd by HCRI Director, Dr Rony Brauman originally appeared in Le Monde on January 20, 2010. English translation by the author.The earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince and neighboring areas has led to a worldwide surge of solidarity which we must fully...
Haiti earthquake – interview with HCRI Director, Dr Rony Brauman
Interview (in French) with HCRI Director, Dr Rony Brauman, on DailyMotion 14 Jan 2010Â regarding the humanitarian aid intervention following the earthquake in Haiti Related Contact Us +44 (0) 161 306 6000 Find Us The University of...
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