Malay Firoz
Biographic Data
| ID | 127703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malay Firoz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malay |
| FAMILY NAME | Firoz |
| SIGNATURE | FIROZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1323-1946 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Forum
Humanitarianism
Humanitarianism can be broadly understood as a concern with human suffering and a moral desire to alleviate it. It manifests not only through discrete acts of helping, but also through a set of practices, norms, laws, and forms of government. The urgency of humanitarian causes is regularly invoked to justify the large-scale mobilisation of people and resources. They provide anthropologists with a critical site for studying the structural tension …
Incubating Futures
Incarnations of humanitarian-development policies linking refugee productivity and self-reliance in the Global South have circulated in the international aid sector for decades, but have reemerged in response to concerns about the refugee "crisis" in the Global North. Proponents have referred to these approaches as "incubation." Focusing on Jordan, Lebanon, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, we juxtapose the success story told about incubation with the fail…
Jordan
Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency, by Melissa Gatter. New York: American University in Cairo Press, 2023. 200 pages. $64.95 cloth, $63.99 e-book
Quantifying Vulnerability
Humanitarianism has recently undergone a so-called innovation turn, utilizing cutting-edge technologies to enhance the reach and efficiency of humanitarian aid. This article focuses on novel advances in the way aid organizations record, measure, and classify household vulnerability among Syrian refugees. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Lebanon and Jordan, I explore how the datafication of refugees in humanitarian action not only reveals the …
Indeterminative critique
Adapt or Die? Resilience Discourse and the Shifting Contours of Humanitarian Morality
The epistemic terrain of humanitarian morality hasundergone a profound paradigmatic transformationin recent years. The turn towards “resilience” as a structuring principle in aid programmes has produced new modes of governance that challenge what I call the moral exceptionalism of humanitarianism’s mandate. This article traces the trajectory of moralism in humanitarian studies, exploring how the productive tension between contrapuntal readings of…
Virtual war and magical death
Arabs and Muslims in the media
Adapt or Die? Resilience Discourse and the Shifting Contours of Humanitarian Morality
The epistemic terrain of humanitarian morality hasundergone a profound paradigmatic transformationin recent years. The turn towards “resilience” as a structuring principle in aid programmes has produced new modes of governance that challenge what I call the moral exceptionalism of humanitarianism’s mandate. This article traces the trajectory of moralism in humanitarian studies, exploring how the productive tension between contrapuntal readings of…
Quantifying Vulnerability
Humanitarianism has recently undergone a so-called innovation turn, utilizing cutting-edge technologies to enhance the reach and efficiency of humanitarian aid. This article focuses on novel advances in the way aid organizations record, measure, and classify household vulnerability among Syrian refugees. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Lebanon and Jordan, I explore how the datafication of refugees in humanitarian action not only reveals the …
Arabs and Muslims in the media
Virtual war and magical death
Adapt or Die? Resilience Discourse and the Shifting Contours of Humanitarian Morality
The epistemic terrain of humanitarian morality hasundergone a profound paradigmatic transformationin recent years. The turn towards “resilience” as a structuring principle in aid programmes has produced new modes of governance that challenge what I call the moral exceptionalism of humanitarianism’s mandate. This article traces the trajectory of moralism in humanitarian studies, exploring how the productive tension between contrapuntal readings of…
Indeterminative critique
Jordan
Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency, by Melissa Gatter. New York: American University in Cairo Press, 2023. 200 pages. $64.95 cloth, $63.99 e-book
Quantifying Vulnerability
Humanitarianism has recently undergone a so-called innovation turn, utilizing cutting-edge technologies to enhance the reach and efficiency of humanitarian aid. This article focuses on novel advances in the way aid organizations record, measure, and classify household vulnerability among Syrian refugees. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Lebanon and Jordan, I explore how the datafication of refugees in humanitarian action not only reveals the …
Forum
Humanitarianism
Humanitarianism can be broadly understood as a concern with human suffering and a moral desire to alleviate it. It manifests not only through discrete acts of helping, but also through a set of practices, norms, laws, and forms of government. The urgency of humanitarian causes is regularly invoked to justify the large-scale mobilisation of people and resources. They provide anthropologists with a critical site for studying the structural tension …
Incubating Futures
Incarnations of humanitarian-development policies linking refugee productivity and self-reliance in the Global South have circulated in the international aid sector for decades, but have reemerged in response to concerns about the refugee "crisis" in the Global North. Proponents have referred to these approaches as "incubation." Focusing on Jordan, Lebanon, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, we juxtapose the success story told about incubation with the fail…
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (2 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)