Reading Group Archives – Quiet Aid https://quietaid.info/category/reading-group/ Tagline Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:03:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://quietaid.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cropped-Icon-Quiet-Aid-1-1-32x32.png Reading Group Archives – Quiet Aid https://quietaid.info/category/reading-group/ 32 32 #10 Reimagining Transparency and Humanitarianism, the Politics of Sincerity and Care https://quietaid.info/10-reimagining-transparency-and-humanitarianism-the-politics-of-sincerity-and-care/ Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:02:16 +0000 https://quietaid.info/?p=1113 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 …

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]]> #9 Recent Debates in the Anthropology of Humanitarianism https://quietaid.info/9-recent-debates-in-the-anthropology-of-humanitarianism/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:37:26 +0000 https://quietaid.info/?p=1105 “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 …

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]]> #8 The Need to Help https://quietaid.info/8-the-need-to-help/ Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:38:41 +0000 https://quietaid.info/?p=996 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 …

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]]> #7 An Enchanted Modern https://quietaid.info/7-an-enchanted-modern/ Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:25:34 +0000 https://quietaid.info/?p=992 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 …

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]]> #6 The Moral Neoliberal https://quietaid.info/6-the-moral-neoliberal/ Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:17:53 +0000 https://quietaid.info/?p=987 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 …

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]]> #5 The Debate on “Everyday” Muslims https://quietaid.info/the-debate-on-everyday-muslims/ Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:07:04 +0000 https://quietaid.info/?p=979 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 …

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]]> #4 The Universal Enemy https://quietaid.info/4-the-universal-enemy/ Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:50:52 +0000 https://quietaid.info/?p=934 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 …

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]]> #3 Reading Islam https://quietaid.info/3-reading-islam/ Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:44:03 +0000 https://quietaid.info/?p=929 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, …

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]]> #2 Remaking Muslim Lives https://quietaid.info/2-remaking-muslim-lives/ Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:30:59 +0000 https://quietaid.info/?p=923 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 …

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]]> #1 Giving to God https://quietaid.info/1-giving-to-god/ Tue, 06 Sep 2022 12:56:40 +0000 https://quietaid.info/?p=896 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 …

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