Humanicrats': the social production of compassion, indifference, and hostility in long-term camps
Author(s)
Napier-Moore, RebeccaEditor(s)
Eade, DeborahPublication date
2011-02-01Keywords
Refugees and IDPsHumanitarian practice
Conflict
Development methods
Disasters
Development in Practice Journal
DiP
Country
Uganda
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Development in PracticeDocument type
Journal articleLanguage
EnglishDescription
Why do front-line workers not always display humanitarian compassion towards people living in camps? In seeking an answer, this article conceptualises the 'humanicrat': a front-line worker who is part humanitarian and part bureaucrat, each with typological emotions. Case studies from NGO teams in long-term camps in northern Ugandan illustrate the social production of emotions. The two teams work in differing contexts of organisational arrangements and discourses: conditions which result in predominant emotions of compassion and indifference in one team, and hostility in another. The article ends by asking what, if anything, can be done to curb the ill-treatment of displaced people.<p>This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p>Pages
11ISSN
0961-4524EISSN
1364-9213ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/09614524.2011.530232