C Horst
Biographic Data
| ID | 20128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Horst |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Horst |
| SIGNATURE | HORST C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Peace Research Institute Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1022-2585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Towards a Conceptualisation of Relational Humanitarianism
In this article we suggest that the call for widening participation as part of the quest for a more localised humanitarianism has overlooked the clash of ethical registers that this would entail. We show that the formal script of the professionalised humanitarian system operates with an individualised ethics, while multiple other actors that exist alongside the humanitarian system operate with a relational ethical register. Based on a literature …
Life History Research and the Violence of War: Experiencing Binary Thinking on Pain and Privilege, Being and Knowing
This reflective piece explores the ‘I am the evidence’ side of the process of knowing. It offers the story of the Yugoslav wars of secession (1991–1999) and their human consequences from the point of view of someone who refuses to surrender ground to the socio-political conditions of life in which ethno-national and cultural differences have to be transgressed. The core of this article is based on the life history of Maja Korac, developed in conv…
From Refugees to Citizens? How Refugee Youth in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya Use Education to Challenge Their Status as Non-Citizens
The Dadaab camps of Kenya have ‘warehoused’ refugees from Somalia and elsewhere since 1991, providing their inhabitants with little hope to (re)gain the legal rights, participation, and membership that citizenship provides. Refugee youth in Dadaab hope that education can enable their access to citizenship rights—in particular, physical mobility and the right to work. Drawing on ethnographic research, semi-structured interviews, and life history i…
Education for Refugees: Building Durable Futures
Education is one of the key tools of nation-building, as it aims to create future citizens. Yet what happens in seemingly ‘futureless’ contexts where refugees cannot access even social membership, let alone legal citizenship? In this introduction to our special issue on education for refugees, we explore the aspirations and conceptions of possible futures that students, teachers, governments, international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), …
Questioning Artists: Contributing Societal Critique and Alternative Visions in Dark Times
In this article, I explore the concept of the questioning individual through life history research with two female artists from (post)war contexts. Afghan theater producer Monirah Hashemi’s story illustrates how self-expression in contexts of violence is not only politically but also socially repressed, and illustrates the role that marginalized outsiders can play in questioning. Diala Brisly, a visual artist from Syria, talks of public expressio…
Transnational Citizens, Cosmopolitan Outlooks? Migration as a Route to Cosmopolitanism
In this article, we argue that transnational citizens – those international migrants who maintain connections to their country of origin and its diaspora – can be moderate cosmopolitans. We hold the primarily normative idea of cosmopolitanism up against the empirical literature on transnationalism, and show how cosmopolitanism can develop from the migration process itself and the subsequent connection to a diversity of places. We claim that study…
Responsibility to protest: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of motives for protest participation in Myanmar
Miracles in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt and Refugees as ‘Vanguard’
The radical uncertainty that refugees face because of war, flight and exile often dramatically shapes their participation in society. Violent conflict and human rights abuses are not just disproportionately experienced by, but can also create, political subjects. Such life events can transform the motivations, sense of responsibility and political actions of individuals with refugee backgrounds. In this article, we explore the links between civil…
State formation and economic development in post-war Somaliland: The Impact of the Private Sector in an Unrecognised State
Unrecognised internationally, Somaliland operates as a hybrid political order where a range of state and non-state entities provide security, representation and social services. Local business elites have impacted state formation after war by lobbying against a range of regulations, providing the government with loans and contributions rather than paying sufficient taxes, and by hindering the development of sound financial institutions. The succe…
Exporting 'active citizenship: Foreign support for citizenship education in the Arab world
What explains the rise in support for active citizenship programs in the Arab region? How has active citizenship been envisioned and taught with support by foreign states? How do participants understand the usefulness and impact of such programs? In this paper, we examine the contexts in which citizenship programs that embody the political aspirations of foreign states, are implemented. Embedded in local political realities, participants in these…
Making a difference in Mogadishu? Experiences of multi-sited embeddedness among diaspora youth
Civic participation today is increasingly multi-sited, operating in, between and across specific locations. Growing numbers of people experience multi-sited embeddedness, which I understand both in the sense of belonging to and engaging in multiple communities. In this article, I focus on those who left Somalia as young children or were born to Somali parents in exile, and ask what motivates these young people to return or turn to the Somali regi…
Implementing the Women, Peace and Security agenda? Somali debates on women's public roles and political participation
In conflict and post-conflict settings, the international community operates with the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda supporting gender equality. During and after war, gender roles are often deeply contested as part of larger societal transformations and uncertainties. In Somalia since the 1960s, gender identities and roles have undergone substantial changes, influenced by contemporary political systems, the women’s movement, civil war and…
Migrants as agents of development: Diaspora engagement discourse and practice in Europe
This article analyses how European governments and civil society actors engage diasporas in Europe as agents for the development of their countries of origin. Through a critical examination of diaspora engagement discourse and practice in various European countries, we identify three implicit understandings. First, development is conceived of as the planned activities of Western professional development actors; second, diasporas are seen as actua…
Private money, public scrutiny? Contrasting perspectives on remittances
Migrant remittances have received unprecedented attention over the past decade and scholars have interpreted remittance flows from a range of vantage points. In this article, we explore the meaning of remittances from three perspectives - (1) as an ingredient of terrorism and crime; (2) as a contribution to development; and (3) as an obstacle to integration. We explore these perspectives through an analysis of eight years of public debate in Norw…
The transnational political engagements of refugees: Remittance sending practices amongst Somalis in Norway
This article aims to provide insight into the transnational political engagements of Somalis in Norway, and focuses mainly on their financial contributions. Such an aim is inspired by the increased interest in the transnational political engagements of diaspora groups, which has not yet been matched by sufficient empirical research on the topic. The Somali case is particularly interesting, considering the effective state collapse and ongoing civi…
Doing Research with Refugees: Issues and Guidelines. Edited by Bogusia Temple and Rhetta Moran
Journal Article Doing Research with Refugees: Issues and Guidelines. Edited by Bogusia Temple and Rhetta Moran. Get access Doing Research with Refugees: Issues and Guidelines. Edited by Bogusia Temple and Rhetta Moran. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2006. xiv + 232pp. £60.00. ISBN 9781861345981. Cindy Horst Cindy Horst International Peace Research Institute, Oslo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refu…
Transnational Nomads: A Centenary Celebration
There is a tendency to consider all refugees as 'vulnerable victims': an attitude reinforced by the stream of images depicting refugees living in abject conditions. This groundbreaking study of Somalis in a Kenyan refugee camp reveals the inadequacy of such assumptions by describing the rich personal and social histories that refugees bring with them to the camps. The author focuses on the ways in which Somalis are able to adapt their 'nomadic' h…
Introduction: Refugee Livelihoods: Continuity and Transformations
INTRODUCTION: Refugee Livelihoods: Continuity and Transformations Get access Cindy Horst Cindy Horst International Peace Research Institute, Oslo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 6–22, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdi0122 Published: 01 June 2006
Les théories du transnationalisme et des diasporas
[...] Les processus de mondialisation : l’influence des évolutions technologiques Au cours du dernier siècle, une explosion technologique dans le domaine des transports et des communications a créé, selon Appadurai (1986), de nouvelles conditions de proximité. Les technologies de l’information et des communications permettent une circulation de données toujours plus vaste et des interactions en temps réel. Des moyens de transport plus rapides et …
Document. Vital links in social security: Somali refugees in the Dadaab camps, Kenya
Document. Vital links in social security: Somali refugees in the Dadaab camps, Kenya Get access C Horst C Horst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 1_and_2, April 2002, Pages 242–259, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/21.1_and_2.242 Published: 01 April 2002
Migrants as agents of development: Diaspora engagement discourse and practice in Europe
This article analyses how European governments and civil society actors engage diasporas in Europe as agents for the development of their countries of origin. Through a critical examination of diaspora engagement discourse and practice in various European countries, we identify three implicit understandings. First, development is conceived of as the planned activities of Western professional development actors; second, diasporas are seen as actua…
Making a difference in Mogadishu? Experiences of multi-sited embeddedness among diaspora youth
Civic participation today is increasingly multi-sited, operating in, between and across specific locations. Growing numbers of people experience multi-sited embeddedness, which I understand both in the sense of belonging to and engaging in multiple communities. In this article, I focus on those who left Somalia as young children or were born to Somali parents in exile, and ask what motivates these young people to return or turn to the Somali regi…
The transnational political engagements of refugees: Remittance sending practices amongst Somalis in Norway
This article aims to provide insight into the transnational political engagements of Somalis in Norway, and focuses mainly on their financial contributions. Such an aim is inspired by the increased interest in the transnational political engagements of diaspora groups, which has not yet been matched by sufficient empirical research on the topic. The Somali case is particularly interesting, considering the effective state collapse and ongoing civi…
Introduction: Refugee Livelihoods: Continuity and Transformations
INTRODUCTION: Refugee Livelihoods: Continuity and Transformations Get access Cindy Horst Cindy Horst International Peace Research Institute, Oslo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 6–22, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdi0122 Published: 01 June 2006
Implementing the Women, Peace and Security agenda? Somali debates on women's public roles and political participation
In conflict and post-conflict settings, the international community operates with the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda supporting gender equality. During and after war, gender roles are often deeply contested as part of larger societal transformations and uncertainties. In Somalia since the 1960s, gender identities and roles have undergone substantial changes, influenced by contemporary political systems, the women’s movement, civil war and…
Education for Refugees: Building Durable Futures
Education is one of the key tools of nation-building, as it aims to create future citizens. Yet what happens in seemingly ‘futureless’ contexts where refugees cannot access even social membership, let alone legal citizenship? In this introduction to our special issue on education for refugees, we explore the aspirations and conceptions of possible futures that students, teachers, governments, international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), …
Responsibility to protest: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of motives for protest participation in Myanmar
Miracles in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt and Refugees as ‘Vanguard’
The radical uncertainty that refugees face because of war, flight and exile often dramatically shapes their participation in society. Violent conflict and human rights abuses are not just disproportionately experienced by, but can also create, political subjects. Such life events can transform the motivations, sense of responsibility and political actions of individuals with refugee backgrounds. In this article, we explore the links between civil…
State formation and economic development in post-war Somaliland: The Impact of the Private Sector in an Unrecognised State
Unrecognised internationally, Somaliland operates as a hybrid political order where a range of state and non-state entities provide security, representation and social services. Local business elites have impacted state formation after war by lobbying against a range of regulations, providing the government with loans and contributions rather than paying sufficient taxes, and by hindering the development of sound financial institutions. The succe…
Private money, public scrutiny? Contrasting perspectives on remittances
Migrant remittances have received unprecedented attention over the past decade and scholars have interpreted remittance flows from a range of vantage points. In this article, we explore the meaning of remittances from three perspectives - (1) as an ingredient of terrorism and crime; (2) as a contribution to development; and (3) as an obstacle to integration. We explore these perspectives through an analysis of eight years of public debate in Norw…
Exporting 'active citizenship: Foreign support for citizenship education in the Arab world
What explains the rise in support for active citizenship programs in the Arab region? How has active citizenship been envisioned and taught with support by foreign states? How do participants understand the usefulness and impact of such programs? In this paper, we examine the contexts in which citizenship programs that embody the political aspirations of foreign states, are implemented. Embedded in local political realities, participants in these…
Document. Vital links in social security: Somali refugees in the Dadaab camps, Kenya
Document. Vital links in social security: Somali refugees in the Dadaab camps, Kenya Get access C Horst C Horst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 1_and_2, April 2002, Pages 242–259, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/21.1_and_2.242 Published: 01 April 2002
From Refugees to Citizens? How Refugee Youth in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya Use Education to Challenge Their Status as Non-Citizens
The Dadaab camps of Kenya have ‘warehoused’ refugees from Somalia and elsewhere since 1991, providing their inhabitants with little hope to (re)gain the legal rights, participation, and membership that citizenship provides. Refugee youth in Dadaab hope that education can enable their access to citizenship rights—in particular, physical mobility and the right to work. Drawing on ethnographic research, semi-structured interviews, and life history i…
Document. Vital links in social security: Somali refugees in the Dadaab camps, Kenya
Document. Vital links in social security: Somali refugees in the Dadaab camps, Kenya Get access C Horst C Horst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 1_and_2, April 2002, Pages 242–259, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/21.1_and_2.242 Published: 01 April 2002
Les théories du transnationalisme et des diasporas
[...] Les processus de mondialisation : l’influence des évolutions technologiques Au cours du dernier siècle, une explosion technologique dans le domaine des transports et des communications a créé, selon Appadurai (1986), de nouvelles conditions de proximité. Les technologies de l’information et des communications permettent une circulation de données toujours plus vaste et des interactions en temps réel. Des moyens de transport plus rapides et …
Transnational Nomads: A Centenary Celebration
There is a tendency to consider all refugees as 'vulnerable victims': an attitude reinforced by the stream of images depicting refugees living in abject conditions. This groundbreaking study of Somalis in a Kenyan refugee camp reveals the inadequacy of such assumptions by describing the rich personal and social histories that refugees bring with them to the camps. The author focuses on the ways in which Somalis are able to adapt their 'nomadic' h…
Introduction: Refugee Livelihoods: Continuity and Transformations
INTRODUCTION: Refugee Livelihoods: Continuity and Transformations Get access Cindy Horst Cindy Horst International Peace Research Institute, Oslo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 6–22, https://doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdi0122 Published: 01 June 2006
Doing Research with Refugees: Issues and Guidelines. Edited by Bogusia Temple and Rhetta Moran
Journal Article Doing Research with Refugees: Issues and Guidelines. Edited by Bogusia Temple and Rhetta Moran. Get access Doing Research with Refugees: Issues and Guidelines. Edited by Bogusia Temple and Rhetta Moran. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2006. xiv + 232pp. £60.00. ISBN 9781861345981. Cindy Horst Cindy Horst International Peace Research Institute, Oslo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refu…
The transnational political engagements of refugees: Remittance sending practices amongst Somalis in Norway
This article aims to provide insight into the transnational political engagements of Somalis in Norway, and focuses mainly on their financial contributions. Such an aim is inspired by the increased interest in the transnational political engagements of diaspora groups, which has not yet been matched by sufficient empirical research on the topic. The Somali case is particularly interesting, considering the effective state collapse and ongoing civi…
Private money, public scrutiny? Contrasting perspectives on remittances
Migrant remittances have received unprecedented attention over the past decade and scholars have interpreted remittance flows from a range of vantage points. In this article, we explore the meaning of remittances from three perspectives - (1) as an ingredient of terrorism and crime; (2) as a contribution to development; and (3) as an obstacle to integration. We explore these perspectives through an analysis of eight years of public debate in Norw…
Migrants as agents of development: Diaspora engagement discourse and practice in Europe
This article analyses how European governments and civil society actors engage diasporas in Europe as agents for the development of their countries of origin. Through a critical examination of diaspora engagement discourse and practice in various European countries, we identify three implicit understandings. First, development is conceived of as the planned activities of Western professional development actors; second, diasporas are seen as actua…
Implementing the Women, Peace and Security agenda? Somali debates on women's public roles and political participation
In conflict and post-conflict settings, the international community operates with the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda supporting gender equality. During and after war, gender roles are often deeply contested as part of larger societal transformations and uncertainties. In Somalia since the 1960s, gender identities and roles have undergone substantial changes, influenced by contemporary political systems, the women’s movement, civil war and…
Making a difference in Mogadishu? Experiences of multi-sited embeddedness among diaspora youth
Civic participation today is increasingly multi-sited, operating in, between and across specific locations. Growing numbers of people experience multi-sited embeddedness, which I understand both in the sense of belonging to and engaging in multiple communities. In this article, I focus on those who left Somalia as young children or were born to Somali parents in exile, and ask what motivates these young people to return or turn to the Somali regi…
Miracles in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt and Refugees as ‘Vanguard’
The radical uncertainty that refugees face because of war, flight and exile often dramatically shapes their participation in society. Violent conflict and human rights abuses are not just disproportionately experienced by, but can also create, political subjects. Such life events can transform the motivations, sense of responsibility and political actions of individuals with refugee backgrounds. In this article, we explore the links between civil…
State formation and economic development in post-war Somaliland: The Impact of the Private Sector in an Unrecognised State
Unrecognised internationally, Somaliland operates as a hybrid political order where a range of state and non-state entities provide security, representation and social services. Local business elites have impacted state formation after war by lobbying against a range of regulations, providing the government with loans and contributions rather than paying sufficient taxes, and by hindering the development of sound financial institutions. The succe…
Exporting 'active citizenship: Foreign support for citizenship education in the Arab world
What explains the rise in support for active citizenship programs in the Arab region? How has active citizenship been envisioned and taught with support by foreign states? How do participants understand the usefulness and impact of such programs? In this paper, we examine the contexts in which citizenship programs that embody the political aspirations of foreign states, are implemented. Embedded in local political realities, participants in these…
Responsibility to protest: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of motives for protest participation in Myanmar
Transnational Citizens, Cosmopolitan Outlooks? Migration as a Route to Cosmopolitanism
In this article, we argue that transnational citizens – those international migrants who maintain connections to their country of origin and its diaspora – can be moderate cosmopolitans. We hold the primarily normative idea of cosmopolitanism up against the empirical literature on transnationalism, and show how cosmopolitanism can develop from the migration process itself and the subsequent connection to a diversity of places. We claim that study…
Questioning Artists: Contributing Societal Critique and Alternative Visions in Dark Times
In this article, I explore the concept of the questioning individual through life history research with two female artists from (post)war contexts. Afghan theater producer Monirah Hashemi’s story illustrates how self-expression in contexts of violence is not only politically but also socially repressed, and illustrates the role that marginalized outsiders can play in questioning. Diala Brisly, a visual artist from Syria, talks of public expressio…
Towards a Conceptualisation of Relational Humanitarianism
In this article we suggest that the call for widening participation as part of the quest for a more localised humanitarianism has overlooked the clash of ethical registers that this would entail. We show that the formal script of the professionalised humanitarian system operates with an individualised ethics, while multiple other actors that exist alongside the humanitarian system operate with a relational ethical register. Based on a literature …
Life History Research and the Violence of War: Experiencing Binary Thinking on Pain and Privilege, Being and Knowing
This reflective piece explores the ‘I am the evidence’ side of the process of knowing. It offers the story of the Yugoslav wars of secession (1991–1999) and their human consequences from the point of view of someone who refuses to surrender ground to the socio-political conditions of life in which ethno-national and cultural differences have to be transgressed. The core of this article is based on the life history of Maja Korac, developed in conv…
From Refugees to Citizens? How Refugee Youth in the Dadaab Camps of Kenya Use Education to Challenge Their Status as Non-Citizens
The Dadaab camps of Kenya have ‘warehoused’ refugees from Somalia and elsewhere since 1991, providing their inhabitants with little hope to (re)gain the legal rights, participation, and membership that citizenship provides. Refugee youth in Dadaab hope that education can enable their access to citizenship rights—in particular, physical mobility and the right to work. Drawing on ethnographic research, semi-structured interviews, and life history i…
Education for Refugees: Building Durable Futures
Education is one of the key tools of nation-building, as it aims to create future citizens. Yet what happens in seemingly ‘futureless’ contexts where refugees cannot access even social membership, let alone legal citizenship? In this introduction to our special issue on education for refugees, we explore the aspirations and conceptions of possible futures that students, teachers, governments, international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), …
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Law (11 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (9 works) · Refugee (7 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)