Agnieszka Sobocinska, Author at Allegra Lab

Author: Agnieszka Sobocinska

Agnieszka Sobocinska is Director of the Menzies Australia Institute and Reader in Historical Geography at King’s College London. She is a historian with research interests in humanitarianism and international development, North-South contacts, and Australia-Asia relations. Her latest monograph, Saving the World? Western Volunteers and the rise of the Humanitarian-Development Complex, was published with Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Mobile Humanitarians: an afterword

April, 2022 / By Till Mostowlansky and Agnieszka Sobocinska

This webinar series set out to explore the relationship between mobility and humanitarianism, and our speakers opened up several new […]

Mobile Humanitarians Threads

Mobilities after Displacement

April, 2022 / By Ann-Christin Zuntz, Till Mostowlansky and Agnieszka Sobocinska

In this webinar series, we explore the relationship between mobility and humanitarianism in the course of four episodes. We –

Gatherings Mobile Humanitarians Threads

Race, Security, and the Contradictions of Humanitarianism

April, 2022 / By Young-sun Hong, Agnieszka Sobocinska and Till Mostowlansky

In this webinar series, we explore the relationship between mobility and humanitarianism in the course of four episodes. We –

Gatherings Mobile Humanitarians Threads

Being Like Family: Humanitarian Mobility and Metaphors of Kinship across Asia

April, 2022 / By Chika Watanabe, Till Mostowlansky and Agnieszka Sobocinska

In this webinar series, we explore the relationship between mobility and humanitarianism in the course of four episodes. We

Gatherings Mobile Humanitarians Threads

Building Aidland: Aid Workers and the Creation of a Global Aid Industry in the 1970s

March, 2022 / By Kevin O'Sullivan, Agnieszka Sobocinska and Till Mostowlansky

In this webinar series, we explore the relationship between mobility and humanitarianism in the course of four episodes. We –