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7 Mar 2023
It's publication day! TIME AND POWER IN AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP 📗 is now out in the world with @AUCPress, a project that's been >8 years in the making. It's a surreal feeling. 1/7
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28 Mar 2025
📰 @melgatter from @UniOfSussex questions the term resilience in humanitarianism, asking whether it is useful to call refugees resilient and proposing a new way for academics and development practitioners to approach the term.
#OpenAccess in Ethnos >>
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25 Mar 2025
Has Assad's downfall in Syrian changed anything for Syrians displaced in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey? Charlotte Al Khalili and I share the perspectives of people in all three contexts for The Conversation, and the situation is…complicated 👇
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📰@melgatter from @SussexGlobal questions the term resilience in humanitarianism, asking whether it is useful to call refugees resilient & proposing a new way for academics & development practitioners to approach the term.
Available #OpenAccess in Ethnos:
buff.ly/2p4Mj7C
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20 Feb 2025
Who is resilience for? What is the usefulness of calling refugees resilient? Should we avoid the term altogether? I've attempted to think through these questions in my article in Ethnos, building on important scholarship by thinkers like @JulReid - check it out👇
20 Feb 2025
Resilience for Whom? Resiliency Humanitarianism and Everyday Resistance in a Carceral Camp
Melissa Gatter
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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12 Dec 2024
Like clockwork, European countries have started halting the processing of Syrian asylum claims. Is it surprising how quickly otherwise slow immigration systems can implement change if they want to? No! Let's nerd out about time, shall we? 🧵 (1/8)
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12 Dec 2024
Borders aren't about keeping people out, but about distinguishing between people within the borders. Lengthy processes make migrants look like they're a burden, lazy or loitering. (7/8)
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12 Dec 2024
This is why time matters in migration debates. Migration is not just about HOW or WHERE we move but HOW LONG it takes us to do so. The question of 'how long' does a lot of work to socialize certain people to the kinds of futures they can access. (8/8)
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Melissa Gatter retweeted
17 Nov 2024
Pencil down the date: workshop on displacement and colonialism. Key speakers : @FranceskAlbs @jinanbastaki @nahedhabib9 @JosephSchechla @abdallabayyari @sarahdaoud @MohamadQadan @OroubElAbed @SamarNakhle
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Melissa Gatter retweeted
13 Nov 2024
The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies @OfficialBrismes is still raising money to support higher education in Gaza, to be used in line with the priorities of the Emergency Committee of Universities in Gaza. Please RT/share/donate if you can: gofundme.com/f/the-brismes-f…
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Melissa Gatter retweeted
12 Nov 2024
Today, in a landmark verdict, a jury found government contractor CACI liable for the torture of Iraqi men at Abu Ghraib in 2003-04 and ordered it to pay each of the three plaintiffs $3 million in compensatory damages and $11 million in punitive damages.
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Melissa Gatter retweeted
A beatiful piece by Shannon Mattern that matters now more than ever:
"...breakdown is our epistemic and experiential reality. What we really need to study is how the world gets put back together." (2018)
placesjournal.org/article/ma… @PlacesJournal
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Melissa Gatter retweeted
11 Nov 2024
Book note--Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency by Melissa Gatter. 2013. Anthropologist Melissa Gatter reveals a power system meant to aid refugees in fact suppresses them and forecloses futures. @melgatter @AUCPress aucpress.com/9781617970979/
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Melissa Gatter retweeted
7 Nov 2024
📢 Call for Papers for the #ASA2025 panel 'Catastrophic thinking, and thinking about catastrophe: constructing an anthropology of the ‘end-times’ for the colonised and displaced'
⏰CfP closes 23:59 GMT, 18 November 2024 See below for more info👇
5 Nov 2024
🚨 Anthropologists of catastrophe 🚨 @CharlotteAlKha2 and I want to hear from you! Submit your abstract for our ASA 2025 panel on anthropologies of the 'end-times' by 18 Nov: theasa.org/conferences/asa20…
@theasainfo #ASA2025
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Melissa Gatter retweeted
6 Nov 2024
I'm not doing this again, see my tweets from 2016
Plus ça change
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Melissa Gatter retweeted
6 Nov 2024
What’s coming is chaos, confusion, and attacks on every issue you care about all at once. That’s the strategy — mass mayhem and distraction. Don’t let it work. Define your sphere of influence: where you can have an impact, work on that, strengthen/build relationships.
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