Prof. Cathrine Brun

Deputy Director for Research

Professor Brun is a human geographer and her research-interests concern forced migration and conflict, housing and home; theory, ethics and practice of humanitarianism. Her approach to research is qualitative and ethnographic with action research as a central way of co-producing knowledge. Cathrine has a PhD in human geography and has worked with forced displacement, disasters and urban development in Sri Lanka, Georgia, Malawi, Uganda, Jordan and Lebanon. Prior to joining the CLS, she was a Professor in Geography at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (till 2015) and the Director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) at Oxford Brookes University (on leave from 2021).

 

Publications

Edited books and journal special issues

  • (2015) Making Home in Limbo? Domestic Practices and the Meaning of Home. Special issue Refuge vol 31, no. 1. (editor with A.H. Fábos)
  • (2014) Alternative Development: Unravelling Marginalization, Voicing Change. Ashgate, Farnham. (edited with P. Blaikie and M. Jones) 
  • (2013) Hus, hjem og sted. Geografiske perspektiver på vår samtid. [House, home, place. Geographical perspectives on our time.] Akademika, Trondheim. (edited with G. Setten)
  • (2009) Spatialising politics. Culture and geography in postcolonial Sri Lanka. Sage, New Delhi. (edited with T. Jazeel)
  • (2005) House: loss, refuge, belonging, in C. Brun and T. Morris (eds). House: loss, refuge, belonging. Conference report from the international IDP conference in Trondheim 16-18 September 2004, published with Forced Migration Review, Refugees Studies Centre, Oxford.
  • (2005) House: loss, refuge, belonging. Conference report from the international IDP conference in Trondheim 16-18 September 2004. Published with Forced Migration Review, Refugees Studies Centre, Oxford. (edited with T. Morris)
  • (2003) Researching Internal Displacement. State of the Art. Conference proceedings Trondheim 7-8 February 2003. Acta Geographica Series A, no. 6. NTNU, Trondheim. (edited with N. Birkeland)

 

Monograph

(2008) Finding a place. Local integration and protracted displacement in Sri Lanka. Social Scientists’ Association, Colombo. 

Journal articles

  • (2021 Carving out space for equitable collaborative research in protracted displacement. Journal of Refugee Studies 34(3):  2539–2553 (with Maha Shuayb)
  • (2021) Vital conjunctures in compound crises: Conceptualising young team’s education trajectories in protracted displacement in Jordan and Lebanon. Journal of Social Sciences 10: 241, https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10070241 (with Zoe Jordan)
  • (2020) Exceptional and Futureless Humanitarian Education of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Prospects for Shifting the Lens. Refuge 36(2): 20 – 30. (with Maha Shuayb)
  • (2019) Temporal injustice and re-orientations in asylum reception centres in Norway: towards critical geographies of architecture in the institution. Fennia 197(2) 232 – 248. https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.84758 (with Ragne Øwre Thorshaug)
  • (2019) Living with shifting borders: peripheralisation and the production of invisibility, Geopolitics 24(4): 878 – 895.
  • (2018) Bringers of light: Performing resource revenue transparency in Liberia. Geoforum 97: 198–208.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.09.004 (with Levon Epremanian)
  • (2017) Mobilising home for long term displacement: a reflection on the durable solutions. Journal of Human Rights Practice 9(2): 177 – 183 (with Anita H. Fábos).
  • (2017) Displaced citizens and abject living. The categorical discomfort with citizens out of place. Norwegian Journal of Geography 71(4): 220–232 (with Anita H. Fábos and Oroub El Abed).
  • (2016) There is no future in humanitarianism: Emergency, temporality and protracted displacement. History and Anthropology 27(4): 393–410.
  • (2016) Voicing noise: Political agency and the trialectics of participation in urban Malawi. Geoforum 74: 136-146 (with Hilde Refstie)
  • (2016) Dwelling in the temporary: the involuntary mobility of displaced Georgians in rented accommodation. Cultural Studies 30(3): 421–440,  Special issue on (Im)mobilities of Dwelling, edited by L. Meier and S. Frank 
  • (2015) Homemaking in limbo? A conceptual framework. Refuge 31(1): 5–18. (with A.H. Fábos).
  • (2015) Home as a critical value: From shelter to home in Georgia. Refuge 31(1): 43 – 54. 
  • (2015) Active waiting and changing hopes. Toward a time perspective on protracted displacement. Social Analysis 59(1): 19–37. Special issue on Conflict, mobility and uncertainty edited by C. Horst and K. Grabska.
  • (2013) Young team’s everyday politics in post-conflict Sri Lanka. Space and Polity 17(1): 106–122. (with F. Azmi and R. Lund)
  • (2013) Working gender after crisis: partnerships and disconnections in Sri Lanka after the Indian Ocean tsunami. Gender, Place and Culture 20(1): 70-86. (with C. Attanapola and R. Lund)
  • (2012) Between the local and the diasporic: the shifting centre of gravity in war-torn Sri Lanka’s transnational politics. Contemporary South Asia 20(1): 61–75. (with N. Van Hear) 
  • (2012) Towards Transformative Participation: Collaborative Research with ‘Urban IDPs’in Uganda. Journal of Refugee Studies 25(2): 239–256. (with H. Refstie)
  • (2010) Hospitality: becoming ‘IDPs’ and ‘hosts’ in protracted displacement, Journal of Refugee Studies 23(3): 337–355.
  • (2010) Real Time Research: Decolonising practices or just another spectacle of researcher-practitioner collaboration. Development in Practice 20(7): 812–826. (with R. Lund)
  • (2009) A geographers’ imperative? Research and action in the aftermath of disaster, The Geographical Journal 175(3):196–207.
  • (2009) ‘Unpacking’ the narrative of a national housing policy in Sri Lanka. Norwegian Journal of Geography 63(1): 10–22. (with R. Lund)
  • (2008) Making a home during crisis: Post-tsunami recovery in the context of war, Sri Lanka. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 29(3): 274–288. (with R. Lund)
  • (2008) Birds of Freedom. Young team, LTTE and representations of gender, nationalism and governance in northern Sri Lanka. Critical Asian Studies 40(3): 399–422.
  • (2008) Review of Blunt, A. Dowling, R. 2006. Home, Routledge, London. In J. Hyndman (ed). Authors meet critics: reviews and response. Social and Cultural Geography 9(5): 557–572. 
  • (2005) Women in the local/global fields of war and displacement. Gender, Development and Technology 9(1): 57–80.
  • (2003) Local citizens or internally displaced persons? Dilemmas of long term displacement in Sri Lanka. Journal of Refugee Studies 16(4): 376-397.
  • (2001) Reterritorialising the link between team and place in refugee studies. Geografiska Annaler 83B(1): 15-25.
  • (2000) Spatial practices of integration and segregation among internally displaced persons and their hosts in Sri Lanka. Norwegian Journal of Geography 54(3): 96–101.

 

Book chapters

  • (2022) Understanding protracted displacement through the dwelling: the temporal injustice of the not quite, not yet solutions to refugee crises. In Howayda Al Harithy (ed.) Urban Recovery. Intersecting Displacement with Recovery, pp. 141 – 166.
  • (2020) Home as a Multi-scalar Concept’ in Paolo Boccagni Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia Milena Belloni (eds.) Thinking Home on the Move. Bingley: Emerald, pp. 75-97
  • (2020) Privatized Housing and never ending displacement: the temporality of dwelling for displaced Georgians. In: S. Pasquetti and R. Sanyal (eds.) Displacement: Building Global Conversations on Refuge. Manchester University Press (with Ragne Øwre Thorshaug)
  • (2020, The place of the camp in protracted displacement. Routledge Handbook on Place, edited by Tim Edensor, Ares Kalandides and Uma Kothari (5500 words)
  • (2020) Homekeeping in long term displacement. Entry for The Routledge International Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies, edited by Anindita Datta, Peter Hopkins, Lynda Johnston, Elizabeth Olson, and Joseli Maria Silva (5000 words, with Anita H. Fàbos)
  • (2016) Young team’s recovery in Eastern Sri Lanka: From war to postwar and beyond. In Geographies of Children and Young team, Vol 11 Conflicts, Violence and Peace, edited by K. Hörschelman, C. Harker and T. Skelton, Springer (with F. Azmi and R. Lund, online version published in December) 
  • (2015) Between exclusion and political engagement: Conceptualizing young team’s everyday politics in the post-war setting of Sri Lanka. In Geographies of Children and Young team. Politics, Citizenship and Rights, edited by T. Skelton, K.P. Kallio and S. Mills. Pp. 345 – 362. Springer. (with F. Azmi and R. Lund)
  • (2014) Alternative development: unravelling marginalization, voicing change. In Alternative Development: Unravelling Marginalization, Voicing Change, edited by C. Brun, P. Blaikie and M. Jones. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 1–21. (with P. Blaikie)
  • (2014) Geographies of forced migration – researching conflicting spaces and borderland issues. In Alternative Development: Unravelling Marginalization, Voicing Change, edited by C. Brun, P. Blaikie and M. Jones. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 287–304. (with R. Lund)
  • (2013) “I love my soldier”. Developing responsible and ethically sound research strategies in a militarised society. In Research Methods in Conflict Settings. A View from Below, edited by D. Mazurana, K. Jacobsen and L.A. Gale, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 129–148.
  • (2013) Hjem er et annet sted. Hjemproduserende praksiser i midlertidige boliger [Home is elsewhere. Making home in temporary dwellings]. In Hus, hjem og sted. Geografiske perspektiver på vår samtid [House, home, place. Geographical perspectives on our time], edited by C. Brun and G. Setten. Akademika, Trondheim, pp. 63–76.
  • (2013) Om hus, hjem og sted [On House, home and place]. In Hus, hjem og sted. Geografiske perspektiver på vår samtid [House, home, place. Geographical perspectives on our time], edited by C. Brun and G. Setten. Akademika, Trondheim, pp. 9–21. (with G. Setten)
  • (2012) Home in temporary dwellings. In International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, edited by S.J. Smith, M. Elsinga, L. Fox O’Mahony, O. S. Eng, S. Wachter, R. Dowling. Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 424–433.
  • (2011) Shifting between the local and global: space, power and politics in war-torn Sri Lanka. In Trysts with Democracy: Political Practice in South Asia, edited by S. Toft-Madsen, K.B. Nielsen and U. Skoda. Anthem Press, London, pp. 239–257. (with N. Van Hear)
  • (2009) IDPs and hosts as constitutive categories in protracted displacement. In Forced to move – involuntary displacement and resettlement – policy and practice, edited by Fernando, P., K. Fernando and M. Kumarasiri. Centre for Poverty Analysis, Colombo, pp. 125–144. 
  • (2009) Introduction. Spatial Politics and Postcolonial Sri Lanka. In Spatialising politics. Culture and geography in postcolonial Sri Lanka, edited by C. Brun and T. Jazeel. Sage, New Delhi, pp. 1–23. (with T. Jazeel)
  • (2009) Concluding thoughts. In Spatialising politics. Culture and geography in postcolonial Sri Lanka, edited by Brun and Jazeel. Sage, New Delhi, pp.216–222. (with T. Jazeel)
  • (2009) ‘Unpacking’ the narrative of a national housing policy in Sri Lanka. In The Tsunami of 2004 in Sri Lanka. Impacts and policy in the shadow of civil war, edited by P. Blaikie and R. Lund. Routledge, London. (reprint from Norwegian Journal of Geography, with R. Lund). 
  • (2006) Entreprenørskap i ulike regionale kontekster [Entrepreneurship in different regional contexts.] In  Entreprenørskap på norsk. [Entrepreneurship in Norway], edited by O.R. Spilling. Fagbokforlaget, Oslo, revised and updated version, pp.135–161. (with T. Bolkesjø)
  • (2005) Sri Lankan Diaspora. Immigration and Asylum. From 1900 to the Present, edited by M.J. Gibney and R. Hansen: ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California, pp.586–591. 
  • (2003) Not only about survival: livelihood strategies in protracted displacement. In In the Maze of Displacement. Conflict, Migration and Change, edited by N. Shanmugaratnam, R. Lund and K.A. Stølen. Høyskoleforlaget, Oslo, pp. 26–49.

 

Selected research reports, papers, blogposts and publications for practitioners and policy makers

  • (2021) The Economic Impact of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon. What it Means for Current Policies. World Refugees & Migration Council Research Report, Ottawa, http://www.wrmcouncil.org (with Ali Fakih, Maha Shuayb, Mohammad Hammoud).
  • (2021) From Education to Employment: Youth trajectories in Jordan and Lebanon in the context of protracted displacement.  (authors: Maha Shuayb, Cathrine Brun, Mohammad Hammoud, Oroub El Abed, Hala Caroline Abou Zaki, Dina Batshon, Nadim Haider, Cyrine Saab, Hamza Saleh, Alexandra Kassir, Zoe Jordan). Centre for Lebanese Studies and Centre for Development and Eemergency Practice, Oxford Brookes University, Beirut and Oxford. 
  • (2020) Education in Emergencies: five critical points for shifting the power. Blog-post jointly published by the Centre for Lebanese Studies  and the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice, http://cendep.blogspot.com/2020/12/education-in-emergencies-five-critical.html (with Maha Shuayb)
  • (2020) For young Syrian refugees, education and employment cannot remain apolitical, Open Democracy, 20th November 2020, https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/north-africa-west-asia/young-syrian-refugees-education-and-employment-cannot-remain-apolitical/ (with M. Shuayb)
  • (2017) Shelter in Flux. Forced Migration Review no 55, June 2017, http://www.fmreview.org/shelter.html?utm_source=FMR+55+Shelter+in+displacement+-+online&utm_campaign=FMR+Alert+Eng+55+online&utm_medium=email (with C. Parrack and B. Piquard)
  • (2016) Protracted Refugee Displacement in the Middle East: Making home in Limbo? Policy Paper for the Middle East Institute, published 01.06.2016, http://www.mei.edu/content/map/protracted-circumstances-refugee-displacement-middle-east-making-home-limbo (with A.H. Fábos) 
  • (2015) Professionalization of Humanitarian Work. The Norwegian Case. Report European universities on the Professionalization on Humanitarian Action (EUPRHA). http://hamap.euprha.org/upload/2015/03/euprha-lcp-norway.pdf (with C. Attanapola)
  • (2014) Country Profile Norway; background data for Country profile: http://hamap.euprha.org/country-profiles/norway/. (with L. Van Duin and C. Attanapola)
  • (2011) Inclusive citizenship and gendered participation – perceptions of youth in Eastern Sri Lanka. Working paper 8. Post Crisis Recovery. Researching and Teaching across Boundaries. Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Chenkallady. (with F. Azmi and R. Lund)
  • (2010) Research on young team in Sri Lanka, with special reference to development, recovery and methodology. Working Paper 3. Post-crisis Recovery. Researching and Teaching across Boundaries. Eastern University of Sri Lanka, Chenkallady. (with F. Azmi and R. Lund) 
  • (2009) How knowledge about gender travels through organisations. Social Scientists’ Association, Colombo. (with C. Attanapola and R. Lund)
  • (2008) The FONT Programme. Building Capacities for Reconstruction and Recovery – A Review of Activities 2005–2008, Trondheim: Department of Geography, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). (with the NTNU Research Group on Forced Migration)
  • (2005)  Research guide on internal displacement. Forced Migration Online, www.forcedmigration.org/  
  • (2005) House: loss, refuge, belonging, in C. Brun and T. Morris (eds). House: loss, refuge, belonging. Conference report from the international IDP conference in Trondheim 16-18 September 2004,  published with Forced Migration Review, Refugees Studies Centre, Oxford.
  • (2005) House: loss, refuge, belonging. Conference report from the international IDP conference in Trondheim 16-18 September 2004. Published with Forced Migration Review, Refugees Studies Centre, Oxford. (edited with T. Morris)
  • (2004) Evaluation report. Norwegian Refugee Council’s shelter projects in the South Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Norwegian Refugee Council, Oslo.
  • (2003)  Researching Internal Displacement. State of the Art. Conference proceedings Trondheim 7-8 February 2003. Acta Geographica Series A, no. 6. NTNU, Trondheim. (edited with N.  Birkeland)
  • (2003) Permanent impermanence. Researching long term displacement in Sri Lanka. C. Brun & N. Birkeland (eds.): Researching Internal Displacement. State of the Art. Conference proceedings Trondheim 7-8 February 2003. Acta Geographica Series A, No. 6. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, pp. 423-432.
  • (2003) Forced migrants, refugees or IDPs? Consequences of labelling on identity formation and entitlements in Sri Lanka. Acta Geographica, Series B, No.2, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.
  • (2001) Report from Round Table Conference on Internally Displaced Persons: Lessons learned and future international mechanisms. Organized by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Norwegian Refugee Council 23 May 2001. Norwegian Refugee Council, Oslo. 
  •  (2001) The response strategies of IDPs: questions to be asked. Response Strategies of the Internally Displaced: Changing the Humanitarian Lens. Conference proceedings by Norwegian Refugee Council, Global IDP project, NTNU, Refugee Studies Centre, http://www.fmreview.org/oslo/osloidp.pdf.
  • (2000) Newcomers and hosts. Muslim internally displaced persons and their hosts in Sri Lanka – challenges for social research. Norwegian University of Science and Technology: Recovery and Development after Conflict and Disaster. Proceedings from the Conference. April 2000. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, pp.99–118. 
  • (2000) Making young displaced men visible. Forced Migration Review, No. 9, December 2000, pp.10–12.

 

Selected talks and presentations last three years

  • (2020) Education in Emergencies 20 years on. Panel debate organised by the Centre for Lebanese Studies, Beirut 15th December 2020. 
  • (2019) Research collaborations with nongovernmental organisations and civil society: the spectacle continues or a potential for decolonising research? Invited talk, Danish Institute of International Studies, Copenhagen, 22.10.2019
  • (2019) Understanding protracted displacement through the dwelling Invited talk for City Debates 2019 on ‘Urban Recovery(s): Intersecting Displacement and Reconstruction’, American University of Beirut, 1-3 April 2019.
  • (2019) Working towards and with GCRF funding. Joint event at the British Academy with ESRC, DFID and British Academy preparing for a programme on Early Childhood research. 14th March, 2019. 
  • (2019) The case for an ethics of care in humanitarianism’s inbetween spaces. Workshop on Infrastructures of Care Spaces of Displacement and Refuge. 1 February 2019. The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London 
  • (2018) Refugees as City Makers. Invited intervention at launch of report, at American University of Beirut, September 2019. 
  • (2018) Revisiting the relationship between team and place in refugee studies. Keynote for the International conference on Conflict and Migration in the Middle East. Institute of Migration Studies with the L’institut Français du Proche-Orient 4th to 6th June 2018
  • (2018) Shelter in flux: the temporality of dwelling in crises. International conference Homeless Dwelling: Devastating and Discrete Disaster. Perspectives on societal domiciles and habitation in everyday life. University of Bremen and the Mariann Steegmann Institute. Bremen, 3rd to 6th May 2017.
  • (2018) Masterclass on time and temporality in protracted displacement. Masterclass with PhD students at UCL, London 9thMarch. 
  • (2017) Homemaking in temporary dwellings. Invited keynote. Design for Peace World Humanitarian Design Summit, London 13th December
  • (2017) Humanitarianism in a different key? Principled pragmatism for long term refugee crises. Invited talk, Department of Geography,  seminar series, UCL, 28.11.2017
  • (2017) Integration by Internally Displaced Persons. Lessons learnt from international examples. Keynote at Council of Europe National Forum: 3 years of displacement: challenges and good practices of IDPs integration. Kyiv, 19-20 October, 2017. 
  • (2017) The case for an ethics of care in humanitarianism’s inbetween spaces. Invited talk. Seminar series of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, 16th October.
  • (2017) Humanitarianism in a different key? Principled pragmatism for long term refugee crises.  The Centre for Lebanese Studies, the Lebanese American University, 13th September
  • (2017) Humanitarianism in a different key. Principled pragmatism for long term refugee crises. Keynote at the European Development Association conference, 22 August 2017. 
  • (2017) Mobilising home for protracted displacement: A feminist proposition. Talk in public seminar series on The Making and Unmaking of Home in an Uncertain World, International Gender Studies, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, June 8th
  • (2017) Mobility, informality and the material. Conceiving home in protracted displacement. Keynote talk for the International Conference on Homing, University of Trento June 5th and 6th, 2017. 
  • (2017) Displaced citizens and abject living. The categorical discomfort with citizens out of place. Presentation with Anita H. Fàbos and Oroub El Abed at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, April 2017. 
  • (2017) Approaching the field. Lecture at the Feinstein International Institute, Boston, April 2017. 
  • (2017) Displaced citizens and abject living. The categorical discomfort with citizens out of place. Presentation with Anita H. Fàbos and Oroub El Abed at the international conference Beyond Crisis: Rethinking Refugee Studies University of Oxford, 16th-17th March, 2017. 
  • (2017) Dwelling in the temporary: (im)mobilities in conflict. Invited talk at the Institute of Historical Research, the Centre for the Studies of Home, Senate House, 1st February. 2017. 
  • (2017) There is no Future in Humanitarianism. Crisis, Ethics and Temporality in Forced Migration. Invited talk, University of Peradeniya, Kandy, Sri Lanka. 9th January 2017.
  • (2016) Shelter in Flux. Public Seminar Series, the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, 30th November, 2016.
  • (2016) Mobilising Home to Rethink Refugee Exile. Higgins School of Humanities, Clark University (US), Invited Talk with A.H. Fábos, 25th October 2016. 
  • (2016) Achieving methodological rigor in forced migration research – a conversation, with Karen Jacobsen, International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, July 2016, Poznan, Poland.
  •  (2016) Creating Knowledge, Creating Change. Keynote Panel at the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration, July 2016, Poznan, Poland.  
  • (2016) Understanding practice and practicing geography through action research. Lecture, Contemporary Debates in Geography, Nordic PhD Course University of Uppsala, 18th – 22nd April, 2016  
  • (2016) Temporality and protracted displacement. Critiquing categories in the study of migration. Invited Talk, the University of Manchester, Global Development Institute, 28th April, 2016
  • (2016) There is no future in humanitarianism: Crisis, Ethics and Temporality in Forced Migration. Invited talk in Seminar Series, Centre for Global Politics, Economy and Society, Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, 11th April, 2016. 
  • (2016) Researching and Training for the Humanitarian Sector: The Perspective from the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP), Oxford Brookes University. Presentation at the seminar “Creation and Catastrophe”, the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, 7th April, 2016.
  • (2016) There is no future in humanitarianism: Crisis, Ethics and Temporality in Protracted Displacement. Invited plenary, City Debates, American University of Beirut, 2nd to 4th March 2016.
  • (2014) Mobility and changing notions of citizenship in the city. With S.-A. Rye, presentation at the workshop Mobile Methodologies by the Norwegian Networks on the Geographies of Mobilities, Trondheim 24th and 25th September 2014.
  • (2014) Protracted displacement and consequences of humanitarian categories: methods for interviewing in protracted refugee settings. Talks for students in Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi, February 2014. 
  • (2013) From agency to bare life? Changing notions of agency in forced migration. Paper presented at workshop at Chr. Michelsen’s Institute, Bergen: mobilities:immobilities, 5 – 7 September 2013. 
  • (2013) Manoeuvring in a low trust environment. Shifting from nongovernmental organizations to social enterprises. With S. Maheswaran. Entrepreneurship and employment in the Global South, Conference Copenhagen Business School, 24th to 25th June, 2013.
  • (2013) Between movement and moorings. Revisiting the relationship between team and place in refugee studies. Paper presented at the panel “Geographies of Forced Migration: 20 years since ‘Geography and Refugees’”, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference August, 2013.
  • (2013) From shelter to home. From temporary dwellings to permanent homes for internally displaced in Western Georgia. International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), Kolkata, January 2013.
  • (2013) Home-making in limbo: domestic practices and the meaning of home for forced migrants in protracted situations. International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), Kolkata, January 2013 (with A.H. Fabos).
  • (2013) A house is not enough. Interrogating solutions to protracted displacement in Georgia. International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), Kolkata, January 2013.
  • (2013) Bringing ‘forced’ back into forced migration. Ethics, responsibilities and analytical consequences. International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), Kolkata, January 2013.
  • (2012) Stuck in the present, captured by the past. Time perspectives on protracted displacement. European Association for Anthropological Research (EASA), Paris, July 2012.
  • (2012) Young team’s everyday politics in post conflict Sri Lanka. AAG meeting New York, February 2012. With F. Azmi and R. Lund.

Publications