Author: Hanna Berg

Hanna Berg is a PhD candidate at the department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Graduate Institute Geneva. Her PhD project explores the role of bureaucracy in (re)shaping and sustaining the aftermath of humanitarian emergency interventions. Hanna’s academic background is in Semitic languages and Middle East studies, and her current research works across theoretical conversations on humanitarian interventions, practice and governance in the Middle East region, and anthropology of documents and bureaucracy.

Hanna Berg

A critique of humanitarianism on the brink of genocide

November, 2023 / By Hanna Berg

That humanitarian language, materials, and practice offer a space for politics to hide (Feldman, 2018, p. 131) can probably not […]