Melissa Gatter
Biographic Data
| ID | 220135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Gatter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Gatter |
| SIGNATURE | GATTER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8423-9347 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Camp Time: Heterochronies in ‘Other Spaces
Contemporary global apartheid is built upon temporal discord, with refugee camps playing a central role. Yet camp studies have largely neglected the temporal dimensions of displacement, leading to reductive notions of time in the camp as a paradox of permanent temporariness. This article examines two types of 21st century campscapes based on ethnographic research in archetypal humanitarian‐run camps in Jordan and privatized city shelter camps in …
Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian Resistance in Israel/Palestine
Resilience for Whom? Resiliency Humanitarianism and Everyday Resistance in a Carceral Camp
Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency
The Digital is Political in ‘Mediated Lives’: A Review of Mirjam Twigt’s ‘Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan’. By Mirjam Twigt
At the height of Europe’s refugee ‘crisis’ in 2015, a dominant anti-migrant narrative framed asylum seekers and digital technologies as mutually exclusive, as though owning a smartphone disqualifies someone from being a ‘true’ refugee. Elsewhere, in refugee camps far from Europe’s doorstep, camp residents are celebrated by humanitarians for their tech-savvy ‘resilience’ (Turner 2019). Both narratives fall on two sides of the same security imperat…
Preserving order: Narrating resilience as threat in Jordan’s Azraq refugee camp
Built in 2014, Azraq is narrated as the ‘new and improved’ refugee camp in the humanitarian world while at the same time containing 40,000 Syrians in a high-security desert environment. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Azraq, Jordan, this article understands Azraq’s camp governance as bringing to light a Jordanian care-control politics operated through national aid workers, whose daily actions perpetuate a conflation of humanitaria…
Camps Revisited: Multifaceted Spatialities of a Modern Political Technology. Edited by Irit Katz, Diana Martin and Claudio Minca
The camp has been the subject of scholarly fascination for decades. The seeming proliferation of camps during the so-called refugee ‘crisis’ has prompted many researchers to reconsider the workings of the refugee or migrant camp not only elsewhere, but also in their home countries in Europe. Beyond the journeys of those fleeing violence across the Mediterranean, movement around the globe is at an all-time high. Camps, with their particular tempor…
Restoring childhood: Humanitarianism and growing up Syrian in Za`tari refugee camp
Of the 80,000 Syrians living in Za`tari refugee camp in Jordan, roughly 44,000 are under the age of 18. This article explores childhoods lived in displacement in this humanitarian space. Za`tari's humanitarian apparatus believes children have lost their childhood due to past trauma from the war and current displacement in a refugee camp. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the article explores the ways in which non-governmental organisations (NGOs) …
Resilience for Whom? Resiliency Humanitarianism and Everyday Resistance in a Carceral Camp
Preserving order: Narrating resilience as threat in Jordan’s Azraq refugee camp
Built in 2014, Azraq is narrated as the ‘new and improved’ refugee camp in the humanitarian world while at the same time containing 40,000 Syrians in a high-security desert environment. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Azraq, Jordan, this article understands Azraq’s camp governance as bringing to light a Jordanian care-control politics operated through national aid workers, whose daily actions perpetuate a conflation of humanitaria…
Restoring childhood: Humanitarianism and growing up Syrian in Za`tari refugee camp
Of the 80,000 Syrians living in Za`tari refugee camp in Jordan, roughly 44,000 are under the age of 18. This article explores childhoods lived in displacement in this humanitarian space. Za`tari's humanitarian apparatus believes children have lost their childhood due to past trauma from the war and current displacement in a refugee camp. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the article explores the ways in which non-governmental organisations (NGOs) …
Camps Revisited: Multifaceted Spatialities of a Modern Political Technology. Edited by Irit Katz, Diana Martin and Claudio Minca
The camp has been the subject of scholarly fascination for decades. The seeming proliferation of camps during the so-called refugee ‘crisis’ has prompted many researchers to reconsider the workings of the refugee or migrant camp not only elsewhere, but also in their home countries in Europe. Beyond the journeys of those fleeing violence across the Mediterranean, movement around the globe is at an all-time high. Camps, with their particular tempor…
Preserving order: Narrating resilience as threat in Jordan’s Azraq refugee camp
Built in 2014, Azraq is narrated as the ‘new and improved’ refugee camp in the humanitarian world while at the same time containing 40,000 Syrians in a high-security desert environment. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Azraq, Jordan, this article understands Azraq’s camp governance as bringing to light a Jordanian care-control politics operated through national aid workers, whose daily actions perpetuate a conflation of humanitaria…
The Digital is Political in ‘Mediated Lives’: A Review of Mirjam Twigt’s ‘Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan’. By Mirjam Twigt
At the height of Europe’s refugee ‘crisis’ in 2015, a dominant anti-migrant narrative framed asylum seekers and digital technologies as mutually exclusive, as though owning a smartphone disqualifies someone from being a ‘true’ refugee. Elsewhere, in refugee camps far from Europe’s doorstep, camp residents are celebrated by humanitarians for their tech-savvy ‘resilience’ (Turner 2019). Both narratives fall on two sides of the same security imperat…
Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency
Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian Resistance in Israel/Palestine
Resilience for Whom? Resiliency Humanitarianism and Everyday Resistance in a Carceral Camp
Camp Time: Heterochronies in ‘Other Spaces
Contemporary global apartheid is built upon temporal discord, with refugee camps playing a central role. Yet camp studies have largely neglected the temporal dimensions of displacement, leading to reductive notions of time in the camp as a paradox of permanent temporariness. This article examines two types of 21st century campscapes based on ethnographic research in archetypal humanitarian‐run camps in Jordan and privatized city shelter camps in …
Refugee (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (3 works) · Agency (philosophy (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)