Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies

Talking Humanitarianism

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This podcast features conversations with humanitarian researchers and practitioners sharing their reflections on various humanitarian issues from migration, conflict and disaster to health and governance. This podcast is hosted by the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS). The NCHS was established as a joint initiative between the Chr. Michelsen Institute, the Peace Research Institute Oslo and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, with funding from the Research Council of Norway. The NCHS was operational from 2012-2023. It is currently inactive as funding has ended.

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Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies

Episodes

03 – Shifting our understanding of vulnerability 11.10.2022 40:57

How do we conceptualise vulnerability in the context of humanitarian disasters? In this third episode of the Intersecting Vulnerabilities in Humanitarian Disasters miniseries, Ekatherina Zhukova, Researcher at Lund University in Sweden, and Andrew Littlejohn, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University in the Netherlands discuss shif...

02 – Humanitarian disasters through the lens of a practitioner and researcher 11.10.2022 30:09

What are the different roles and perspectives of humanitarian researchers and practitioners when it comes to disasters and how are these converging? In this second episode of the Intersecting Vulnerabilities in Humanitarian Disasters miniseries, Ekatherina Zhukova, Researcher at Lund University in Sweden, and Zuzana Hrdlickova, Senior Researcher at Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre and humanitari...

01 - Anthropology and humanitarian disasters 11.10.2022 38:43

What role does anthropology play in our understanding of humanitarian disasters? In this first episode of the Intersecting Vulnerabilities in Humanitarian Disasters miniseries, Ekatherina Zhukova, Researcher at Lund University in Sweden, and Alicia Sliwinski, Associate Professor of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, discuss the tools anthropology offers in addressing issues re...