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Quiet Aid explores the nexus between modern aid and longstanding Islamic concerns.
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Quiet Aid explores alternative humanitarian pathways, utopias and aspirations.
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Quiet Aid sheds light on globally relevant practices of civic engagement that have long remained in the background.
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Quiet Aid: Service and Salvation in the Balkans-to-Bengal Complex is a collaborative research project that studies the nexus between modern aid and longstanding Islamic concerns across societies in Central Asia, South Asia and West Asia.

Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, Quiet Aid spans over a five-year period (2022-27) and is based at the Geneva Graduate Institute (Department of Anthropology & Sociology and Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy). The team conducts ethnographic and historical research in locations from Serbia to Bangladesh with the central aim of rethinking aid through practices of service and doing good.

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Project team

Till
Till Mostowlansky

Principal Investigator

Zarina
Zarina Urmanbetova

Postdoctoral Fellow

Gulzhan
Gulzhan Begeyeva

PhD candidate

Pol
Pol Llopart i Olivella

PhD candidate

Mukaram
Mukaram Toktogulova

Senior Research Associate

Fabio
Fabio Vicini

Senior Research Associate

Mohammad
Mohammad Javaid

Research Assistant

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