#8 The Need to Help
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 …
Reading Group
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.
#7 An Enchanted Modern
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 …
#6 The Moral Neoliberal
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 …
#5 The Debate on “Everyday” Muslims
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 …
#4 The Universal Enemy
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 …
#3 Reading Islam
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, …
#2 Remaking Muslim Lives
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 …
#1 Giving to God
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 …