THE SPACE OF CRISIS
The Space of Crisis: Towards a Critical Geography of Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
| Coordinatore | THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Organization address
address: OXFORD ROAD contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Totale costo | 221˙830 € |
| EC contributo | 221˙830 € |
| Programma | FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) |
| Code Call | FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-1-IOF |
| Funding Scheme | MC-IOF |
| Anno di inizio | 2009 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2009-12-22 - 2012-12-21 |
Partecipanti
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THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
Organization address
address: OXFORD ROAD contact info |
UK (MANCHESTER) | coordinator | 221˙830.31 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'This research project seeks to develop a radical geographical critique of contemporary humanitarian emergencies within the context of contemporary globalisation. It seeks to do so via an explicitly theoretical approach that is rooted in historical geographical materialism and critical theory, and in theories of the production of space in particular. The project’s principal objective is to elaborate a theoretical platform for the analysis of these crises as explicitly geographical phenomena, in which particular configurations of socio-spatial and political-ecological relations that stretch form the global to the local and back again, are reconfigured through violent processes of contest and struggle to produce particular spatial, social and material configurations of people, institutions and things in particular places to produce ‘The Space of Crisis’. The space of crisis, it will be argued, represents a particular configuration of space and power that is characterised both by the suffering body-subject of the humanitarian victim-beneficiary, and by a particular set of political ecological and socio-spatial conditions that exhibit stunning similarities wherever they are found. These spaces and subjects, occupy a significant position within the overall logic of neoliberal globalisation in that they act as materializations of particular forms of power struggle in place, and occupy the nexus between the conflicting logics of violence and protection which lies at the heart of neoliberal governmentality. This project will examine the particularity of these spaces and subjects through a detailed analysis of the complex relations that produce them.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
The EU has been providing humanitarian aid and helping the victims of global conflicts since 1992. EU-funded researchers studied African conflict zones to improve the efficiency of mechanisms used for crisis response.