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Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Virtual Book Talk
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Mon, May 22, 2023
7 PM – 8 PM (GMT+3)
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NOTE ABOUT EVENT TIME: The book talk is scheduled for 7 pm Cairo Time (GMT+3), 5 pm London Time (GMT+1)
This book investigates the relationship between time and power in Azraq, asking how the politics of time shape, limit, or enable everyday life for the displaced and aid work. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork (2017-2018), the book complicates perceptions of Azraq as the 'ideal' refugee camp through an investigation of aid workers' and refugees' perspectives on time. It examines how Azraq's power structures have established a monopoly over time within the camp's borders. It analyzes the role of street-level aid workers within Azraq's bureaucracy as both shapers of policy but also subject to the power system and its particular temporalities. The book also explores how refugees navigate this system, both in the day-to-day and over the years, by evaluating various layers of waiting as they affect refugee perceptions of time in the camp – not only the present, but the past, near future, and far future.
You can purchase your copy of this book from major bookstores and online book retailers worldwide.
US: Indiepubs.com
UK Bookshop.org: http://bit.ly/3lxn9gX
AUC Bookstores Egypt: http://bit.ly/3LDyQNU
This event is organized in collaboration with The Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL):
The Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) is a learned society working to advance public education on the Levant through promoting and disseminating research in the humanities, social sciences and related subjects. We work on and in Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Cyprus.
Speakers
Melissa Gatter
Lecturer in International Development and Anthropology
University of Sussex
Melissa Gatter is a Lecturer in International Development and Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her research centers on the anthropology of forced migration and development in the Middle East, particularly the intersection of time, space, and aid in refugee camps in Jordan and beyond. She has consulted and worked for leading aid agencies in Jordan and across the region. Melissa completed her PhD in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge in 2020.
Patricia Ward
Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Integration Studies and the Department of Sociology
Technical University in Dresden
Patricia Ward is a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Integration Studies and (by courtesy) the Department of Sociology at the Technical University in Dresden. Her research interests are in the areas of transnational labor, migration/mobility, and humanitarian aid and development. Patricia was previously with the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. She obtained her doctorate in Sociology from Boston University in 2020. Her dissertation focused on labor relations in JJordan'shumanitarian aid sector. Starting in May 2023, Patricia will begin a new project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) that examines humanitarian supply chains and logistics, focusing on major hubs in Dubai and Italy as case studies.