Estella Carpi is Associate Professor of Humanitarian and Migration Studies at University College London. She is presently a visiting senior scholar at the Lebanese American University. Her work concerns the identity politics and the moral economy of humanitarianism in Lebanon and Turkey. As a social anthropologist, she has worked in several academic and research institutions in the Middle Eastern region, such as the New York University of Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), Trends Research and Advisory (UAE), Lebanon Support, UN-Habitat Lebanon, the American University of Beirut (AUB), UNDP-Egypt (Cairo), and the International Development Research Centre (Cairo). She is the author of The Politics of Crisis-Making: Forced Displacement and Cultures of Assistance in Lebanon (Indiana University Press, 2023).
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Where Does the ‘Self-Indigenization’ Syndrome Come From? Critical Reflections on ‘Research Legitimacy’ in Contemporary Academia
Over the last decade, there have been growing calls for “academic decolonization” (Moosavi 2023) in the Global North, the need to approach and know the South as... More