From ‘aidland’ to ‘homeland
What the lived experiences of Ukrainian crisis leaders indicate about humanitarian response
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7280672 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Max Kelly (0000-0002-0036-5259, School of Humanities and Social Sciences Deakin University Australia), Maree Pardy (0000-0002-6401-3324, School of Humanities and Social Sciences Deakin University Australia), Phoebe Downing (0009-0000-0277-2301) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | e70017-e70017 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disasters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/disa.70017 |
| PMID | 40970504 |
| OpenAlex | W4414353746 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
Reform of the international humanitarian system has stagnated, and commitment to localise power and resources has not eventuated. This research, specifically on the Ukraine humanitarian response, draws on anthropology's exploration of aidnographies, focusing on the oft‐overlooked role of aid workers; however, it offers an explicitly place‐based, grounded approach to Ukrainian crisis leaders' and responders' lived realities, decentring international ‘aidlanders’. We deploy the concept of ‘homeland’ as an explicit counterpoint to ‘aidland’ to portray the dilemmas, tensions, and contradictions of the international system from below. The study employs an actor‐oriented qualitative approach to examine the experiences of Ukrainian humanitarians. Semi‐structured interviews with 32 such individuals provide situated, contextual, time‐bound, and frequently deeply personal stories. Our respondents demonstrate the potential for international guests to adopt a ‘homeland’ sensibility, foregrounding a need to locate policy, procedures, actions, and decision‐making within an equitable, fair, and place‐based setting, responsive rather than controlling, and embedded in relevant contextual priorities, knowledge, and practices
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Classical humanitarianism and resilience humanitarianism
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Spaces of Aid
Adventures in Aidland
The Paradoxes of Aid Work
When Aidland Becomes Absurdland
Institutionalized Intervention
Ethnographies of Volunteering
Volunteering Hierarchies in the Global South
Introduction
Detached from Their Homeland
Citizens as Actors in the Development Field
Adventures in Aidland. The anthropology of professionals in international development
Generational Perspectives on Homeland-Oriented Diasporic Humanitarianism
Citizen aid
Humanitarian fables
The Personal and the Professional
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Challenging environments
Living with transience in high-risk humanitarian spaces
Disorder within the humanitarian sector
The local labour building the international community
Homeland Insecurities
The sound of silence? Listening to localisation at the World Humanitarian Summit
Diasporas in Modern Societies
Speechless Emissaries
Now I see it, now I don't
Constructing Rights and Wrongs in Humanitarian Action
Saving the Saviors
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |