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
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Australia's Foreign Aid Dilemma: Humanitarian aspirations confront democratic legitimacy
1st Edition
By Jack Corbett
January 17, 2019
The Australian aid program faces a fundamental dilemma: how, in the absence of deep popular support, should it generate the political legitimacy required to safeguard its budget and administering institution? Australia’s Foreign Aid Dilemma tells the story of the actors who have grappled with...
International Humanitarian NGOs and State Relations: Politics, Principles and Identity
1st Edition
By Andrew J. Cunningham
May 16, 2018
International Humanitarian NGOs and State Relations: Politics, Principles and Identity examines the often discordant relationship between states and international non-governmental organisations working in the humanitarian sector. INGOs aiming to provide assistance to populations suffering from the ...
Disaster Management in Australia: Government Coordination in a Time of Crisis
1st Edition
By George Carayannopoulos
January 18, 2018
In recent times the frequency and severity of natural disasters has placed a clear emphasis on the ability of governments to plan, prepare and respond in an effective way. Disaster Management in Australia examines government coordination when faced with large scale crises, outlining the challenges ...
Disaster Research: Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Rasmus Dahlberg, Olivier Rubin, Morten Thanning Vendelø
April 06, 2017
Given the tendency of books on disasters to predominantly focus on strong geophysical or descriptive perspectives and in-depth accounts of particular catastrophes, Disaster Research provides a much-needed multidisciplinary perspective of the area. This book is is structured thematically around key ...