Routledge Humanitarian Studies
About the Book Series
The Routledge Humanitarian Studies series in collaboration with the International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA) takes a comprehensive approach to the growing field of expertise that is humanitarian studies. This field is concerned with humanitarian crises caused by natural disaster, conflict or political instability and deals with the study of how humanitarian crises evolve, how they affect people and their institutions and societies, and the responses they trigger.
We invite book proposals that address, amongst other topics, questions of aid delivery, institutional aspects of service provision, the dynamics of rebel wars, state building after war, the international architecture of peacekeeping, the ways in which ordinary people continue to make a living throughout crises, and the effect of crises on gender relations.
This interdisciplinary series draws on and is relevant to a range of disciplines, including development studies, international relations, international law, anthropology, peace and conflict studies, public health and migration studies.
To submit proposals, please contact the Development Studies Editor, Helena Hurd ([email protected]).
Series Editors:
Alex de Waal, Tufts University, USA
Dorothea Hilhorst, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
An Introduction to Humanitarian Action
1st Edition
Edited
By Katrin Radtke, Kristina Roepstorff
March 18, 2025
This important new textbook provides a concise and practice-oriented introduction to the workings of the humanitarian sector and the key contemporary debates surrounding it. The number of people around the world in need of humanitarian action and protection is at its highest figure in decades; yet ...
Young Children in Humanitarian and COVID-19 Crises: Innovations and Lessons from the Global South
1st Edition
Edited
By Sweta Shah, Lucy Bassett
March 13, 2025
The long-term consequences of COVID-19 have been tough for children around the world, but even more so for young children already in humanitarian crisis, whether due to conflict, natural disasters, or economic and political upheaval. This book investigates how organizations around the world ...
Understanding Humanitarian Diplomacy: Principles and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Hafize Zehra Kavak
December 19, 2024
This book introduces readers to the development, principles, and philosophy of humanitarian diplomacy, before demonstrating how it works in practice, using a range of case studies from humanitarian work in the field. Humanitarian diplomacy seeks to create avenues to persuade decision makers and ...
Forced Migration and Humanitarian Action: Operational Challenges and Solutions for Supporting People on the Move
1st Edition
Edited
By Lorenzo Guadagno, Lisette R. Robles
October 24, 2024
Forced population movements are a defining feature of almost any humanitarian crisis, shaping the design, targeting, and delivery of emergency responses. This book investigates how the evolving situation of different forced migrants is accounted for and addressed in humanitarian action in order to ...
Humanitarian Futures: Challenges and Opportunities
1st Edition
By Randolph C. Kent
September 19, 2024
Humanitarian Futures: Challenges and Opportunities explores the increasing types, dimensions and dynamics of crises threatening the world in the twenty-first century, and argues that those with humanitarian roles and responsibilities can only meet such challenges if their approaches to ...
Depoliticising Humanitarian Action: Paradigms, Dilemmas, Resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By Isabelle Desportes, Alice Corbet, Ayesha Siddiqi
September 12, 2024
Is it ever possible to separate humanitarian action from politics? Drawing on the experience of both practitioners and researchers, this book is an essential guide to the thorny interplay between what are too often considered as separate worlds. The humanitarian sector aims to separate its work ...
The Humanitarian Exit Dilemma: The Moral Cost of Withdrawing Aid
1st Edition
By Chin Ruamps
August 26, 2024
How should humanitarian organisations respond when their aid goes awry? Should they stay and remain engaged with the needy, or should they withdraw and leave? Investigating the choices involved and the judgements required when tackling these questions, this book explores the unique ‘Humanitarian ...
Authoritarian Practices and Humanitarian Negotiations
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew J Cunningham
December 07, 2023
This book examines authoritarian practices in relation to humanitarian negotiations. Utilising a wide variety of perspectives and examining a range of contexts, the book considers how humanitarians assess and engage with authoritarian practices and negotiate access to populations in danger. ...
The Humanitarian Parent: Balancing Work and Family in the Aid Sector
1st Edition
By Merit Hietanen
November 13, 2023
Aid sector staff work in some of the world’s most challenging environments, from conflict zones to sites of natural disaster and refugee camps. For a long time, the aid worker was typified by the lone white male, flying from place to place and seeing his family during the holidays. But now, as the ...
Citizen Humanitarianism at European Borders
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert, Elisa Pascucci
May 31, 2023
At a time of escalating conflict between states and NGOs engaged in migrant search and rescue operations across the Mediterranean, this book explores the emerging trend of citizen-led forms of helping others at the borders of Europe. In recent years, Europe’s borders have become new sites of ...
Child Rights in Humanitarian Crisis: Improving Action and Response
1st Edition
Edited
By Rigmor Argren, Jessica Jonsson
April 28, 2023
This book demonstrates how a focus on children’s rights can help practitioners to safeguard children during humanitarian crisis. Child Rights in Humanitarian Crisis focuses on understanding and advancing child rights through practical applications of a child rights perspective in crisis response. ...
The Humanitarian Fix: Navigating Civilian Protection in Contemporary Wars
1st Edition
By Joe Cropp
January 09, 2023
This book investigates how humanitarians balance the laws and principles of civilian protection with the realities of contemporary warzones, where non-state armed actors assert cultural, political and religious traditions that are often at odds with official frameworks. This book argues that ...