Negotiating health and care in humanitarian history

人道主义史上的健康与护理谈判

• 批准号: AH/X004953/1
• 负责人: Yolana Pringle
• 金额: $ 3.08万
• 依托单位: University of Roehampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX004953%2F1
• 关键词: Negotiating; health; care; humanitarian; history

Friends, family, and local volunteers are usually the first to respond in a crisis, including war, conflict, and disaster. If and when international humanitarian organisations arrive, they enter communities that are already responding to health and care needs. The provision of effective humanitarian aid therefore requires sensitivity to the roles and expectations of local caregivers and their communities. This is becoming more important as international organisations seek to take on health issues that were previously in the hands of local caregivers, such as mental health, yet for which there is a lack of contextual knowledge in the humanitarian sector. Through this research network, we aim to develop a deeper understanding of decision-making and health-seeking in humanitarian settings such as the refugee camp, hospital, and clinic, and to foreground humanitarianism as something actively and continually shaped by diverse actors.The network brings together historians of humanitarianism, medical humanities scholars, and refugee historians who are starting to explore the ways that health and care are negotiated in war, conflict, and disaster. How do expectations, emotions, and power dynamics shape encounters with health workers? Why do some people refuse care or act in unexpected ways? And who has a say in defining what is meant by a health or care need? This research is important because it provides innovative ways of foregrounding individuals and communities who are marginalised in research on humanitarianism, as well as in documentary and archival practices. Yet such inquiries remain under-developed, and humanities researchers' insights have been largely disconnected from the research and advocacy of humanitarian, refugee, and diaspora-led organisations who are grappling with similar questions on community health, as well as from museum and archive professionals' initiatives to capture refugee and aid worker 'voices' and experiences.The network redresses this by creating a space for productive dialogues between academics, humanitarian and medical practitioners, refugee and diaspora-led organisations, and museum and archive professionals. Over 2 years, we will organise 3 research and 2 participatory workshops, enabling practitioners and refugee and diaspora-led organisations to work alongside academics and archivists to better understand decision-making and health-seeking in humanitarian settings. This will allow the network to analyse relationships between differing forms of caregiving, such as how local caregiving has worked alongside and conflicted with international humanitarian aid. It will also allow us to explore different ways of engaging with historical collections, to explore and critique the ways in which humanitarian and refugee documents are displayed and organised, and to reflect on the complex and emotional relationships people have with humanitarian objects, such as first aid equipment. We will use our online presence (website, Twitter) to foster international collaboration, using hybrid workshops to allow Global South scholars, who are under-represented in research on humanitarianism, to participate.Demonstrating the relevance of humanities research to contemporary health humanitarianism is at the heart of the network. Shared objectives and outputs will be developed in collaboration with participants, particularly project partners Shabaka, the Living Refugee Archive, the British Red Cross, and the Humanitarian Archive. Our findings will transform our understanding of how health and care has been negotiated in humanitarian settings in the past and lead conversations on methodologies to foreground agency and negotiation. In this way, the network will inform advocacy on inclusion in health humanitarianism, engagement strategies in the museum and archive sectors, and advance research that is more effectively able to centre the individuals and communities who are marginalised in research and practice.

朋友，家人和当地志愿者通常是第一个在危机中做出反应的人，包括战争，冲突和灾难。如果国际人道主义组织抵达，他们将进入已经在应对卫生和护理需求的社区。因此，要提供有效的人道主义援助，就必须对当地照顾者及其社区的作用和期望保持敏感。这一点变得越来越重要，因为国际组织试图处理以前由当地护理人员处理的健康问题，如心理健康，但人道主义部门缺乏相关知识。通过这个研究网络，我们的目标是发展对决策和寻求健康的人道主义环境，如难民营，医院和诊所更深入的理解，并前景人道主义作为积极和不断塑造的不同行为者。该网络汇集了人道主义的历史学家，医学人文学者，以及难民历史学家，他们开始探索在战争、冲突和灾难中谈判医疗和护理的方式。期望、情绪和权力动态如何塑造与卫生工作者的接触？为什么有些人拒绝照顾或以意想不到的方式行事？在定义健康或护理需求的含义时，谁有发言权？这项研究很重要，因为它提供了创新的方法，突出在人道主义研究以及文献和档案实践中被边缘化的个人和社区。然而，这种调查仍然没有得到充分发展，人文科学研究人员的见解在很大程度上与人道主义，难民和侨民领导的组织的研究和宣传脱节，这些组织正在努力解决社区健康的类似问题，以及博物馆和档案馆专业人员主动捕捉难民和援助工作者的“声音”和经验。该网络通过为难民和援助工作者之间的富有成效的对话创造空间来纠正这一点。学者、人道主义和医疗从业人员、难民和侨民领导的组织以及博物馆和档案专业人员。在2年内，我们将组织3项研究和2个参与式研讨会，使从业人员和难民和侨民领导的组织与学者和档案管理员一起工作，以更好地了解人道主义环境中的决策和寻求健康。这将使该网络能够分析不同形式的人道主义援助之间的关系，例如当地人道主义援助如何与国际人道主义援助一起工作以及如何与国际人道主义援助发生冲突。它还将使我们能够探索参与历史收藏的不同方式，探索和批评人道主义和难民文件的展示和组织方式，并反思人们与人道主义物品（如急救设备）的复杂和情感关系。我们将利用我们的在线存在（网站，Twitter）来促进国际合作，使用混合研讨会，让全球南方学者，谁是在人道主义研究的代表性不足，参加。展示人文研究的相关性，当代健康人道主义是网络的核心。将与参与者，特别是项目合作伙伴Shabaka、难民生活档案、英国红十字会和人道主义档案合作制定共同目标和产出。我们的研究结果将改变我们对过去人道主义环境中医疗和护理谈判方式的理解，并引导有关方法论的对话，以突出代理和谈判。通过这种方式，该网络将宣传纳入健康人道主义，博物馆和档案部门的参与战略，并推进能够更有效地集中在研究和实践中被边缘化的个人和社区的研究。