Welcome to the Quiet Aid Reading Group. We meet on a regular basis to discuss publications that tackle aid, service and care from novel perspectives. We put emphasis on book-length texts, but occasionally also include new articles on our core interests. The Reading Group is organised by the Quiet Aid project team and based at the Geneva Graduate Institute. However, we are open to interested scholars from other institutions. Get in touch if you would like to know more.
Hartmann, I., & Carey, M. (2024). “As through a glass darkly: Rethinking sincerity through the lens of ikhlāṣ.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 14(3), 719–732. Ticktin, M. (2024). “Care as …
#10 Reimagining Transparency and Humanitarianism, the Politics of Sincerity and Care Read More
“Every Person Counts: The Problem of Scale in Everyday Humanitarianism,” by Anne-Meike Fechter.“ “Afterword: Humanitarianism, Between Situated Universality and Interventional Universalism,” by Didier Fassin. 12/03/2025 12:00-1:30pm CET The Quiet Aid …
#9 Recent Debates in the Anthropology of Humanitarianism Read More
The Need to Help: The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism by Liisa H. Malkki 31/5/2023, 12.15-2pm CET In The Need to Help Liisa H. Malkki shifts the focus of the …
An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety by Lara Deeb 3/5/2023, 12.15-2pm CET Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates …
The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy by Andrea Muehlebach 29/3/2023, 12.15-2pm CET Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom …
Rediscovering the “Everyday” Muslim: Notes on an Anthropological Divide by Nadia Fadil and Mayanthi Fernando Being Good in Ramadan: Ambivalence, Fragmentation, and the Moral Self in the Lives of Young …
The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity, by Darryl Li 21/12/2022, 12.15-2pm CET No contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad …
Reading Islam: Life and Politics of Brotherhood in Modern Turkey, by Fabio Vicini 30/11/2022, 12.15-2pm CET In Reading Islam Fabio Vicini offers a journey within the intimate relations, reading practices, …
Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina, by David Henig 19/10/2022, 12.15-2pm CET The violent disintegration of Yugoslavia and the cultural and economic dispossession caused by the …
Giving to God: Islamic Charity in Revolutionary Times, by Amira Mittermaier 28/9/2022, 12.15-2pm CET Giving to God examines the everyday practices of Islamic giving in post-revolutionary Egypt. From foods prepared …
