Author: Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn is Associate Professor of Geography and International Studies at Indiana University. Since 2008, her work has focused on issues of forced migration, internal displacement, and humanitarian action. Her work has been published in Science, American Ethnologist, Environment and Planning A and other journals, as well as in public media outlets including Slate and Boston Review. Her new book, No Path Home: Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement will be published by Cornell University Press in December 2017.

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Vernacular Humanitarianism, Adhocracy, and the Problem of Emotion

September, 2017 / By Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Since the refugee crisis of 2015, vernacular humanitarianism—locally focused, volunteer-led efforts at humanitarian action—has been put forward as the answer […]