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Type: Module | Level: Undergraduate and Graduate
Publication date: July 24, 2021 
REFUGEES AND FIRST NATIONS SOVEREIGNTY
(SPRING 2021)
Mediha Sorma and Cristian Capotescu (University of Washington, USA)
Discipline(s) |  All Humanities and Qualitative Social Science Disciplines
Keywords | Migration, care,  asylum seekers, Australia, hospitality
Type: Module | Level: Undergraduate and Graduate
Publication date: July 24, 2021
PALESTINIAN RIGHTS AND THE POSTCOLONIAL ORIGINS OF REFUGEE RIGHTS
​​(SPRING 2021)
Mediha Sorma and Cristian Capotescu (University of Washington, USA)
Discipline(s) |  All Humanities and Qualitative Social Science Disciplines
Keywords |  Refugee protests, UNRWA, internally displaced people, Eurocentric exclusions,  settler-colonialism
Type: Module | Level: Undergraduate and Graduate
Publication date: July 24, 2021
MANAGING MIGRANTS AND CHALLENGES TO INTERNATIONAL LAW
​​(SPRING 2021)
Mediha Sorma and Cristian Capotescu (University of Washington, USA)
Discipline(s) | All Humanities and Qualitative Social Science Disciplines
Keywords |  Humanitarian law, wars of decolonization, Red Cross, decolonization, refuge making
Type: Module | Level: Undergraduate and Graduate
Publication date: July 24, 2021
SOUTHERN-LED HUMANITARIAN RESPONSES TO DISPLACEMENT
​(SPRING 2021)
Mediha Sorma and Cristian Capotescu (University of Washington, USA)
Discipline(s) |All Humanities and Social Science disciplines
Keywords | Palestinian and Syrian refugees, multi-scalar approach, displacement, refugee-refugee relationality
Type: Module | Level: Undergraduate and Graduate
Publication date: July 24, 2021
COMPARATIVE HUMANITARIANISMS IN EGYPT AND THE HIMALAYAS
(SPRING 2021)
Mediha Sorma and Cristian Capotescu (University of Washington, USA)
Discipline(s) | All Humanities and Qualitative Social Science Disciplines
Keywords |  Khidma, Sufi hospitality, Islamic logics of care, Sowa Rigpa humanitarianism, Tibetan medicines, disaster relief
Type: Module | Level: Undergraduate and Graduate
Publication date: July 24, 2021
ISLAMIC ETHICS OF REFUGEE CARE IN SYRIA AND RECIPIENT AGENCY IN CATHOLIC CHARITY IN UGANDA
​(SPRING 2021)
Mediha Sorma and Cristian Capotescu (University of Washington, USA)
Discipline(s) | All Humanities and Qualitative Social Science Disciplines
Keywords |  Islamic pedagogy, Syrian refugee crisis, divine tribulation,  Catholic charity, Kiganda patronage, dependency theory
Type: Module | Level: Undergraduate and Graduate
Publication date: July 24, 2021
RESCUING THE DEAD AND RETHINKING THE HUMAN ​(SPRING 2021)
Mediha Sorma and Cristian Capotescu (University of Washington, USA)
Discipline(s) | All Humanities and Qualitative Social Science Disciplines
Keywords | Iraq War, body count, burial, rituals of caring for the dead, collateral damage.
Type: Module | Level: Undergraduate and Graduate
Publication date: July 24, 2021
HUMANITARIANISM AND MUTUAL AID BEYOND CAPITALISM
​(SPRING 2021)
Mediha Sorma and Cristian Capotescu (University of Washington, USA)
Discipline(s) | All Humanities and Qualitative Social Science Disciplines
Keywords | Mutual Aid, radical care, new social relations, socialism, charitable giving, ethics and authoritarianism
Type: Module | Level: Undergraduate and Graduate
Publication date: July 24, 2021
RETHINKING HUMANITARIANISM AND SEEING BEYOND THE HUMAN
​(SPRING 2021)
Mediha Sorma and Cristian Capotescu (University of Washington, USA)
Discipline(s) | All Humanities and Qualitative Social Science Disciplines
Keywords | Muslim animal sacrifice, fundraising practices in Pakistan, post-humanism, animalization of racialized subjects
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