Routledge Humanitarian Studies
About the Book Series
Routledge Humanitarian Studies is the world’s leading Humanitarian Studies book
series. Published in collaboration with the International Humanitarian Studies
Association (IHSA), the series explores the causes of humanitarian crises; how they
evolve; their effects on people, institutions, and societies; and the range of responses.
The series highlights everyday struggles of people affected by humanitarian crises
(including famine), whether caused by disaster, conflict, climate change, or political
instability, or a combination of all. It also examines the roles of different actors and
humanitarian practices, from local responders to national ministries, to the
international aid system. In addition, the series addresses the structural issues that
contribute to humanitarian crises, including local and global inequalities, aid
architecture and governance, and how these link to peacekeeping, and post-conflict
state building. This inclusive book series invites submissions from voices from around
the world, at a time when the humanitarian sector is undergoing a period of significant
change.
This series draws on and is relevant to a range of disciplines, including but not
exclusive to humanitarian studies, development studies, international relations,
politics, decolonial studies, migration studies, anthropology, sociology, peace and
conflict studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and media studies. It also welcomes
interdisciplinary submissions.
To submit proposals, please contact the series editors or Senior Editor for Global
Development books, Helena Hurd ([email protected]).
Series Editors:
Juan Ricardo Aparicio Cuervo, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Susanne Jaspars, SOAS University of LondonUK
Palash Kamruzzaman, University of South Wales, UK
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 ...
Humanitarian and Military Intervention in Libya and Syria: Parliamentary Debate and Policy Failure
1st Edition
By Aran M. Lewis
December 30, 2022
This book explores the contradictions in Britain’s humanitarian and military intervention in Libya and Syria, beginning with the Arab spring in 2010. The book assesses the contradictions between the expressed humanitarian intentions of British military interveners and the impact of their actions ...
The Vulnerable Humanitarian: Ending Burnout Culture in the Aid Sector
1st Edition
By Gemma Houldey
September 28, 2021
The Vulnerable Humanitarian challenges the prevalence of stress and burnout culture within the aid sector, laying bare the issues of power, agency, security and wellbeing that continue to trouble organisations and staff. Engaging and insightful, this book illustrates the problematic and ...
The Humanitarian Machine: Reflections from Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Diego Fernandez Otegui, Daryl Yoder-Bontrager
July 07, 2021
As the world reels from the impact of a global pandemic and increasing intensity of climate-caused hazards, the humanitarian sector has never been more relevant. But providing aid to those affected by disasters and crises is more complex than ever. In The Humanitarian Machine aid workers reflect ...
Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis: Displacement, Gender and Social Inequalities
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicola Jones, Kate Pincock, Bassam Abu Hamad
June 03, 2021
Adolescents in Humanitarian Crisis investigates the experiences of adolescents displaced by humanitarian crisis. The world is currently seeing unprecedented levels of mass displacement, and almost half of the world’s 70 million displaced people are children and adolescents under the age of 18. ...
Urban Poverty in the Wake of Environmental Disaster: Rehabilitation, Resilience and Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)
1st Edition
By Maria Ela Atienza, Pauline Eadie, May Tan-Mullins
September 30, 2020
This book investigates the best strategies for poverty alleviation in post-disaster urban environments, and the conditions necessary for the success and scaling up of these strategies. Using the case study of Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in the Philippines, the strongest typhoon ever to make landfall, ...
Crisis Management Beyond the Humanitarian-Development Nexus
1st Edition
Edited
By Atsushi Hanatani, Oscar A. Gómez, Chigumi Kawaguchi
March 04, 2020
In addressing humanitarian crises, the international community has long understood the need to extend beyond providing immediate relief, and to engage with long-term recovery activities and the prevention of similar crises in the future. However, this continuum from short-term relief to ...
Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs: Minimal Humanity
1st Edition
By Joël Glasman
December 13, 2019
This book provides the first historical inquiry into the quantification of needs in humanitarian assistance. Ultimately the book argues that we cannot understand the global humanitarian aid movement, if we do not understand how humanitarian agencies made human suffering commensurable across borders...
Production of Disaster and Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti: Disaster Industrial Complex
1st Edition
By Juliana Svistova, Loretta Pyles
October 17, 2019
Natural disasters have long been seen as naturally generated events, but as scientific, technological, and social knowledge of disasters has become more sophisticated, the part that people and systems play in disaster events has become more apparent. Production of Disaster and Recovery in ...
Disaster Public Health and Older People
1st Edition
By Emily Ying Yang Chan
September 10, 2019
Disaster Public Health and Older People introduces professionals, students and fieldworkers to the science and art of promoting health and well-being among older people in the context of humanitarian emergencies, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income country settings. Older people ...
Anti-genocide Activists and the Responsibility to Protect
1st Edition
By Annette Jansen
June 07, 2019
Although the Genocide Convention was already adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1945, it was only in the late 1990s that groups of activists emerged calling for military interventions to halt mass atrocities. The question of who these anti-genocide activists are and what motivates them to call ...