Hanno Brankamp
Biographic Data
| ID | 643792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanno Brankamp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanno |
| FAMILY NAME | Brankamp |
| SIGNATURE | BRANKAMP H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6146-9660 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Epilogue
Camp studies have grown markedly in recent years. While the field has by and large been critical of camps as spatial technologies of protective custody, biopolitical control, minority oppression, racial segregation, custodial care, militarised rule and colonisation, there has been a reluctance to embrace more overtly abolitionist approaches, which have become increasingly influential in research on other carceral spaces like prisons or detention …
Jennifer Hyndman's Managing Displacement, 25 years on
March 2025 marked 25 years since the publication of Jennifer Hyndman's Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism (2000), a landmark book which has shaped critical research on forced migration and humanitarian politics, and political geography more broadly. In Managing Displacement, Hyndman drew both on her professional experience in humanitarian settings in eastern Africa, and on ethnographic research in aid offices from…
Fugitive Junctures
Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants. Their furtive movements in the shadows of modern border regimes echo enslaved people's historical lines of flight and enact similar spatial praxes through which they aim to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on qualitative research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers, this artic…
Poetry On the Run
Poetry On the Run is an ongoing collaborative project that seeks to traverse the confines of research on displacement through poetic encounters, renderings, imaginations, and experimentation. This contribution is based on a creative writing workshop with young poets in Kakuma refugee camp in northwestern Kenya. The workshop explored how the concept of "fugitivity" may resonate with more contemporary experiences of forced migration, while also fur…
The camp as market frontier
This article critically interrogates the ambitions of humanitarians, policymakers, and their corporate partners to fundamentally remake both camp economies and the refugees who inhabit them. It draws on a unique set of elite interviews with key actors from a network of organisations driving ‘innovative’ humanitarian projects in the Kakuma camp and Kalobeyei settlement in Kenya. We identify their shared spatial imaginaries which, first, reconfigur…
N. Sharma, Home Rule
Camp Abolition
Refugee camps are among the most prevalent institutional responses to global displacement. Despite a quasi consensus among scholars, activists, and humanitarians that camps are undesirable, and should only ever be temporary, little work has charted the political project and practices of camp abolition that challenge their spatial unfreedom. Rather than life‐supporting spatial technologies of care that unwittingly signal political failures of incl…
Camp methodologies
This special section contributes to the growing interdisciplinary field of camp studies by examining the ways in which scholars methodologically approach and study camps and camp‐like spaces. The characteristics of camps, which render them of interest to scholarship in the first place, simultaneously generate methodological, ethical, and practical questions for research. Yet comparatively few studies have explicitly addressed the methods and meth…
Camps and counterterrorism
This article examines the enduring entanglements of counterterror governance and refugee encampment in Kenya. The spectre of "terrorism" and its supposed remedy-"counterterrorism"-have loomed large in Kenyan politics since the 1990s and gained further traction since the country's military invasion and occupation of southern Somalia in 2011. Few other spaces have been associated as persistently with threats to Kenya's national security and soverei…
Demarcating Boundaries
Recent years have seen recurrent calls for bridging the “gap” between the worlds of policy-makers, practitioners, and academic scholars concerned with forced migration and humanitarian aid. This has resulted in growing partnerships between international organisations, governments, businesses, foundations, and universities with the aim of harnessing market economic thinking to create new practice-oriented knowledge rather than out-of-touch theorie…
Introduction
This forum of Refuge offers interventions around the theme Humanizing Studies of Refuge and Displacement? as a theoretical and methodological debate for critical refugee and forced migration scholarship. However, rather than proposing a conclusive path towards humanization—which encompasses complex processes of (re)building, (re)constructing, and (re)thinking “the human,” humanity, and social relations—our aim is more modest, tentative, and refle…
Feeling the refugee camp
This paper advances debates in camp geographies and forced migration studies by centring the methodological import of emotions and affect in research on refugee camps. Camps are often spatial expressions of compassion, fear, care, suspicion, but also incubate hope, solidarity, and feelings of belonging among encamped communities. Researchers are never insulated from these complex emotions and affects. While qualitative, ethnographic, experiential…
Madmen, womanizers, and thieves
Kenya's refugee camps have evoked spectacular imaginaries of terrorism and humanitarian crisis. Drawing on everyday discourses and shared knowledges among camp administrators, this article reveals that these geopolitical narratives are underwritten locally by more generalized concerns about the imagined 'otherness' and moral degeneracy of the displaced. Refugees are thus portrayed as criminals and crooks, sexually deviant and idle, as well as 'ma…
Laborers, Migrants, Refugees
This article examines the ways in which both colonial and postcolonial migration regimes in Kenya and Tanzania have reproduced forms of differential governance toward the mobilities of particular African bodies. While there has been a growing interest in the institutional discrimination and “othering” of migrants in or in transit to Europe, comparable dynamics in the global South have received less scholarly attention. The article traces the endu…
Refugees in uniform
Community policing has been a popular paradigm for local anti-crime activities in Africa since the 1990s and spread rapidly across the continent. Humanitarian agencies have increasingly embraced versions of the framework to administer refugee camps and ostensibly foster security, protection and peaceful co-existence among residents. This article demonstrates that the deployment of community policing in Kakuma camp in north-western Kenya has been …
Occupied Enclave
Feeling the refugee camp
This paper advances debates in camp geographies and forced migration studies by centring the methodological import of emotions and affect in research on refugee camps. Camps are often spatial expressions of compassion, fear, care, suspicion, but also incubate hope, solidarity, and feelings of belonging among encamped communities. Researchers are never insulated from these complex emotions and affects. While qualitative, ethnographic, experiential…
Occupied Enclave
Camp Abolition
Refugee camps are among the most prevalent institutional responses to global displacement. Despite a quasi consensus among scholars, activists, and humanitarians that camps are undesirable, and should only ever be temporary, little work has charted the political project and practices of camp abolition that challenge their spatial unfreedom. Rather than life‐supporting spatial technologies of care that unwittingly signal political failures of incl…
Refugees in uniform
Community policing has been a popular paradigm for local anti-crime activities in Africa since the 1990s and spread rapidly across the continent. Humanitarian agencies have increasingly embraced versions of the framework to administer refugee camps and ostensibly foster security, protection and peaceful co-existence among residents. This article demonstrates that the deployment of community policing in Kakuma camp in north-western Kenya has been …
Camps and counterterrorism
This article examines the enduring entanglements of counterterror governance and refugee encampment in Kenya. The spectre of "terrorism" and its supposed remedy-"counterterrorism"-have loomed large in Kenyan politics since the 1990s and gained further traction since the country's military invasion and occupation of southern Somalia in 2011. Few other spaces have been associated as persistently with threats to Kenya's national security and soverei…
Camp methodologies
This special section contributes to the growing interdisciplinary field of camp studies by examining the ways in which scholars methodologically approach and study camps and camp‐like spaces. The characteristics of camps, which render them of interest to scholarship in the first place, simultaneously generate methodological, ethical, and practical questions for research. Yet comparatively few studies have explicitly addressed the methods and meth…
The camp as market frontier
This article critically interrogates the ambitions of humanitarians, policymakers, and their corporate partners to fundamentally remake both camp economies and the refugees who inhabit them. It draws on a unique set of elite interviews with key actors from a network of organisations driving ‘innovative’ humanitarian projects in the Kakuma camp and Kalobeyei settlement in Kenya. We identify their shared spatial imaginaries which, first, reconfigur…
Introduction
This forum of Refuge offers interventions around the theme Humanizing Studies of Refuge and Displacement? as a theoretical and methodological debate for critical refugee and forced migration scholarship. However, rather than proposing a conclusive path towards humanization—which encompasses complex processes of (re)building, (re)constructing, and (re)thinking “the human,” humanity, and social relations—our aim is more modest, tentative, and refle…
Madmen, womanizers, and thieves
Kenya's refugee camps have evoked spectacular imaginaries of terrorism and humanitarian crisis. Drawing on everyday discourses and shared knowledges among camp administrators, this article reveals that these geopolitical narratives are underwritten locally by more generalized concerns about the imagined 'otherness' and moral degeneracy of the displaced. Refugees are thus portrayed as criminals and crooks, sexually deviant and idle, as well as 'ma…
Demarcating Boundaries
Recent years have seen recurrent calls for bridging the “gap” between the worlds of policy-makers, practitioners, and academic scholars concerned with forced migration and humanitarian aid. This has resulted in growing partnerships between international organisations, governments, businesses, foundations, and universities with the aim of harnessing market economic thinking to create new practice-oriented knowledge rather than out-of-touch theorie…
Occupied Enclave
Laborers, Migrants, Refugees
This article examines the ways in which both colonial and postcolonial migration regimes in Kenya and Tanzania have reproduced forms of differential governance toward the mobilities of particular African bodies. While there has been a growing interest in the institutional discrimination and “othering” of migrants in or in transit to Europe, comparable dynamics in the global South have received less scholarly attention. The article traces the endu…
Refugees in uniform
Community policing has been a popular paradigm for local anti-crime activities in Africa since the 1990s and spread rapidly across the continent. Humanitarian agencies have increasingly embraced versions of the framework to administer refugee camps and ostensibly foster security, protection and peaceful co-existence among residents. This article demonstrates that the deployment of community policing in Kakuma camp in north-western Kenya has been …
Demarcating Boundaries
Recent years have seen recurrent calls for bridging the “gap” between the worlds of policy-makers, practitioners, and academic scholars concerned with forced migration and humanitarian aid. This has resulted in growing partnerships between international organisations, governments, businesses, foundations, and universities with the aim of harnessing market economic thinking to create new practice-oriented knowledge rather than out-of-touch theorie…
Introduction
This forum of Refuge offers interventions around the theme Humanizing Studies of Refuge and Displacement? as a theoretical and methodological debate for critical refugee and forced migration scholarship. However, rather than proposing a conclusive path towards humanization—which encompasses complex processes of (re)building, (re)constructing, and (re)thinking “the human,” humanity, and social relations—our aim is more modest, tentative, and refle…
Feeling the refugee camp
This paper advances debates in camp geographies and forced migration studies by centring the methodological import of emotions and affect in research on refugee camps. Camps are often spatial expressions of compassion, fear, care, suspicion, but also incubate hope, solidarity, and feelings of belonging among encamped communities. Researchers are never insulated from these complex emotions and affects. While qualitative, ethnographic, experiential…
Madmen, womanizers, and thieves
Kenya's refugee camps have evoked spectacular imaginaries of terrorism and humanitarian crisis. Drawing on everyday discourses and shared knowledges among camp administrators, this article reveals that these geopolitical narratives are underwritten locally by more generalized concerns about the imagined 'otherness' and moral degeneracy of the displaced. Refugees are thus portrayed as criminals and crooks, sexually deviant and idle, as well as 'ma…
N. Sharma, Home Rule
Camp Abolition
Refugee camps are among the most prevalent institutional responses to global displacement. Despite a quasi consensus among scholars, activists, and humanitarians that camps are undesirable, and should only ever be temporary, little work has charted the political project and practices of camp abolition that challenge their spatial unfreedom. Rather than life‐supporting spatial technologies of care that unwittingly signal political failures of incl…
Camp methodologies
This special section contributes to the growing interdisciplinary field of camp studies by examining the ways in which scholars methodologically approach and study camps and camp‐like spaces. The characteristics of camps, which render them of interest to scholarship in the first place, simultaneously generate methodological, ethical, and practical questions for research. Yet comparatively few studies have explicitly addressed the methods and meth…
Camps and counterterrorism
This article examines the enduring entanglements of counterterror governance and refugee encampment in Kenya. The spectre of "terrorism" and its supposed remedy-"counterterrorism"-have loomed large in Kenyan politics since the 1990s and gained further traction since the country's military invasion and occupation of southern Somalia in 2011. Few other spaces have been associated as persistently with threats to Kenya's national security and soverei…
The camp as market frontier
This article critically interrogates the ambitions of humanitarians, policymakers, and their corporate partners to fundamentally remake both camp economies and the refugees who inhabit them. It draws on a unique set of elite interviews with key actors from a network of organisations driving ‘innovative’ humanitarian projects in the Kakuma camp and Kalobeyei settlement in Kenya. We identify their shared spatial imaginaries which, first, reconfigur…
Poetry On the Run
Poetry On the Run is an ongoing collaborative project that seeks to traverse the confines of research on displacement through poetic encounters, renderings, imaginations, and experimentation. This contribution is based on a creative writing workshop with young poets in Kakuma refugee camp in northwestern Kenya. The workshop explored how the concept of "fugitivity" may resonate with more contemporary experiences of forced migration, while also fur…
Fugitive Junctures
Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants. Their furtive movements in the shadows of modern border regimes echo enslaved people's historical lines of flight and enact similar spatial praxes through which they aim to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on qualitative research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers, this artic…
Epilogue
Camp studies have grown markedly in recent years. While the field has by and large been critical of camps as spatial technologies of protective custody, biopolitical control, minority oppression, racial segregation, custodial care, militarised rule and colonisation, there has been a reluctance to embrace more overtly abolitionist approaches, which have become increasingly influential in research on other carceral spaces like prisons or detention …
Jennifer Hyndman's Managing Displacement, 25 years on
March 2025 marked 25 years since the publication of Jennifer Hyndman's Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism (2000), a landmark book which has shaped critical research on forced migration and humanitarian politics, and political geography more broadly. In Managing Displacement, Hyndman drew both on her professional experience in humanitarian settings in eastern Africa, and on ethnographic research in aid offices from…
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Refugee (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · Criminology (4 works)