Staff Profiles

I am responsible for the PhD programme in Architecture where we offer academic PhD, PhD by design and PhD by practice. 

I give lecture on a number of our modules in our online Masters on Development and Emeregncy Practice (DEP) and our fully online masters in Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding (HAP):  

Modules taught

DEVP 7022 Dissertation (DEP)

DEVP 7018 Independent study (HAP)

DEVP 7012 Humanitarian and peacebuilding programmes in urban conflict (HAP) 

Supervision

Sherin Alshaikhahmed (second supvervisor)

Caterina Frisone

Fatima Hashmi (second supervisor)

Grace Khawam

Oscar Natividad Puig

Kate McAuliff

Aleyda Valdes (second supervisor)

Tobias Vokuhl

My work concentrates on forced migration as a result of conflict and disasters. My current work concerns humanitarianism in protracted displacement and chronic crises, housing and home for forced migrants, self-recovery as well as young persons. Much of my work has been in urban contexts and in camps. As a human geographer, I am interested in how, in chronic crises and displacement, the relationships between people and places change due to displacement. 

I also research the ethics and politics of humanitarianism, the experiences and practices of humanitarians, and the unintended consequences of humanitarian categories and labelling practices, particularly in the context of long-term conflict and displacement. Temporal and spatial dimensions of both forced migration and humanitarianism are cross-cutting themes.

Collaborating with colleagues, organisations and citizen groups in Sri Lanka, Georgia, Uganda, Malawi, Lebanon and Jordan I have developed innovatory methods for ethnographic fieldwork, participatory action research and real time research. I am particularly interested in how such methodological insights may contribute to improving knowledge production, particularly among humanitarian organisations and policy makers.

Research group membership

Research grants and awards

Holding Aid Accountable: Relational Humanitarianism in Protracted Crisis (AidAccount).

Date: 2020 – 2023; Funder: Research Council of Norway:

Status: I am Co-I on the project.

Co-researchers: Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) (Project owner); Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Makerere University; Rako Research and Communication Centre in Hargeisa, Somaliland; Centre for Migration Research and Development in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Effects of Externalisation: EU Migration Management in Africa and the Middle East.

Date: Oct 2020 – Sept 2024; Funder: NORDFORSK: Joint Nordic-UK research programme on Integration and Migration:

Status: I am Co-I on the project.

Co-Researchers: Christian Michelsen Institute (project owner), Danish Institute for International Studies, University of Manchester.

Self-recovery housing for development: scaling up crisis preparedness and humanitarian shelter response.

Date: Nov 2019 – Sept 2021; Funder: EPSRC/GCRF (EP/T015160/1):

Status: I am PI on the project with  Charles Parrack

Co-researchers: CARE UK International, Catholic Relief Services, Habitat for Humanity, IFRC, Overseas Development Institute (we have secured 3 additional months through COVID funding for this project)

Title: From education to employment? Trajectories of young people in Lebanon’s refugee crisis.

Date: Dec 2018 – Oct 2021; Funder: ESRC/GCRF (ES/S004742/1)

Status: I am PI on the project woth Maha Shuayb (CLS),

Co-researchers: Centre for Lebanese Studies, Lebanese American University (We have secured 6 extra month of COVID funding for this project)

Towards employment? Youth trajectories in Jordan and Lebanon’s refugee crisis.

Date: 2019 – 2021; Funder: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (109043-001)

Status: I am Co-PI on the project with Maha Shuayb.

Co-researchers: The Centre for Lebanese Studies, Lebanese American University (project owner)

Further information

Books

• Brun C, Blaikie P, Ed., Alternative Development: Unravelling Marginalization, Voicing Change, Ashgate (2014)
  ISBN: 9781472409348 eISBN: 9781315566597
  Abstract

  This book brings together a collection of essays that discuss alternative development and its relevance for local/global processes of marginalization and change in the Global South. Alternative development questions who the producers of development knowledges and practices are, and aims at decentring development and geographical knowledge from the Anglo-American centre and the Global North. It involves resistance to dominant political-economic processes in order to further the possibilities for non-exploitative and just forms of development. By discussing how to unravel marginalization and voice change through alternative methods, actors and concepts, the book provides useful guidance on understanding the relationship between theory and practice. The main strength of the book is that it calls for a central role for alternative development in the current development discourse, most notably related to justice, rights, globalization, forced migration, conflict and climate change. The book provides new ways of engaging with alternative development thinking and making development alternatives relevant.--Provided by publisher.
  

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• Brun C, Jazeel T, Ed., Spatialising politics. Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka, Sage (2009)
  ISBN: 9788178299297
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• Brun C, Finding a place. Local integration and protracted displacement in Sri Lanka, Social Scientists' Association Sri Lanka (2008)
  ISBN: 978-955-1772-21-5
  

Journal articles

• Jordan Z, Brun C, 'Vital Conjunctures in Compound Crises: Conceptualising Young People’s Education Trajectories in Protracted Displacement in Jordan and Lebanon'
  Social Sciences 10 (7) (2021)
  ISSN: 2076-0760 eISSN: 2076-0760
  Abstract

  This paper emerges out of a study with 293 young people (Syrians, Palestinians and nationals) living in contexts of compound crises and protracted displacement in Jordan and Lebanon. In the paper, we discuss how young people’s education trajectories can be conceptualised, operationalised and studied. We synthesise different approaches to understanding and analysing such trajectories into a framework that captures the intricate and multi-directional ways that young people navigate towards uncertain futures. The framework on multi-directional trajectories takes its starting point from an understanding of Victoria Browne’s ‘lived time’, captured through how different temporalities come together in one person’s story. After presenting our framework and the context in the first part of the paper, the second part applies the framework to analyse the ‘vital conjuncture’ of leaving education. By analysing leaving education as lived time, we create nuanced insights into how this vital conjuncture can be understood to shape young peoples’ trajectories. In conclusion, we discuss the value of understanding trajectories as lived time by illuminating how young people experience and navigate their education trajectories.
  

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• Brun C, Shuayb M, 'Exceptional And Futureless Humanitarian Education Of Syrian Refugees In Lebanon: Prospects For Shifting The Lens.'
  Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees 36 (2) (2020) pp.20-30
  ISSN: 0229-5113 eISSN: 1920-7336
  Abstract

  The  article  unpacks  and  analyzes  the  potentials  and  short-comings  of  a  humanitarian  framework  for  educational  response  during  protracted  displacement.  Humanitarian-ism  is  concerned  with  the  immediate,  while  education  is  future  oriented.  Calls  to  shift  the  humanitarian  discourse  from relief and survival to development have contributed to include education as part of the humanitarian response. The article analyzes potentials and limitations in Lebanon’s edu-cation provision and policies for Syrian refugees. We discuss the impact and implications of the humanitarian response and reflect on what principles should be formulated for pro-vision of a socially just, inclusive, and more developmental education for refugees in protracted displacement.
  

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• Thorshaug RØ, Brun C, 'Temporal injustice and asylum reception centres in Norway: towards a critical geographies of architecture in the institution'
  Fennia: International Journal of Geography 197 (2) (2019) pp.232-248
  ISSN: 0015-0010 eISSN: 1798-5617
  Abstract

  A temporal injustice is inherently built into the asylum-seeking system. Asylum seekers lack control over their biographical and their everyday time. In Norway, most asylum seekers live in reception centres while their applications are processed. This article develops a conceptual framework for understanding the asylum centre by drawing on geographical literature on architecture and contributions from migration studies on temporality. It analyses the ways in which the reception centre becomes a focal point in the asylum seekers’ lives and how people’s lived experiences, the asylum institution and the materiality of the buildings housing the centres come together in the particular temporalities produced by the asylum-seeking process. People’s agentic capacities within institutional and material structures are conceptualised as ‘orientations’. The paper analyses the lived experience of residents in three different reception centres in Norway. The temporal frames operating in the reception centres are expressions of power that produce blurred, uncertain and clashing temporalities. In this context, the reception centre operates as a material disorientation device where institutional durability, temporary dwelling and decaying as well as sub-standard materialities are significant aspects of the asylum seekers’ experience. However, some residents are able to re-orient their perspective and find ways of coping with the uncertainty and waiting. These strategies are identified as ‘reorientations’ to show how the governance and the inhabitation in the centres come together and how people engage with the reception centre through stubborn everyday strategies of inhabiting the centre. In conclusion, the paper reflects on the limited possibility that improving the material conditions may have for a better experience of the asylum-seeking process: it is the interaction between the material, the institution and the lived experience that creates the temporal injustice.
  

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• Epremian L, Brun C, 'Bringers of light: performing resource revenue transparency in Liberia'
  Geoforum 97 (2019) pp.198-208
  ISSN: 0016-7185
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  Initiatives designed to increase transparency have become a tool for improving governance and fighting corruption in the natural resource sector. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is an international organisation that administers a voluntary standard for natural resource revenue transparency. In line with liberal democratic ideals, EITI aims to empower citizens through the dissemination of information supporting governance improvements, public scrutiny and accountability in the sharing of benefits from resource extraction. Adopting a critical lens to transparency, the article examines EITI’s efforts to disseminate natural resource revenue data in rural Liberia. By focusing on how transparency is performed through dissemination workshops, the article creates a nuanced understanding of transparency by analysing how it is operationalised and practiced in encounters with people in areas where resource extraction takes place. The paper begins with an overview of relevant research and the conceptual framing of the study focusing on the performance in and of transparency and continues with a discussion of EITI internationally and in Liberia. Then follows a discussion of the ethnographic approach – travelling with the Liberian EITI-team on their dissemination trip. Through the analysis the article enables an understanding of the workings of transparency by examining how practitioners perform transparency through the performance in the workshops: the structure and orchestration of the workshops; and the performance of transparency by understanding the ways in which the workshops become spectacles that help to legitimise, rationalise and camouflage the fragmented and contradictory realities of extractive industries and their implications for people.

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• Brun C, 'Living with shifting borders: peripheralisation and the production of invisibility'
  Geopolitics 24 (4) (2017) pp.878-895
  ISSN: 1465-0045 eISSN: 1557-3028
  Abstract The article analyses the experiences and material impacts of shifting borders in the historical case of Sri Lanka’s civil war and the contemporary case of shifting border between Georgia and South Ossetia. The two cases point to some lesser known geopolitical practices in which border-shifts and strengthening of control in contested areas take place without much international attention, partly because the shifts are so minor and gradual that they do not reach the news headlines. Living with shifting borders create a state of inbetweenness and losing of control, where forms of visibility and invisibility produces individual uncertainties and vulnerabilities in homeplaces and people’s everyday lives. By analysing the borderland and bordershifts from the perspective of the peripheral, the article emphasises the ways in which border practices become part of social action through a rescaling of the understanding of the border
  encouraged by feminist geopolitics. The article begins by discussing what borders may mean and how borders shift and may produce particular forms of visibility and invisibility. Then the contexts of the Sri Lankan and Georgian villages are introduced before a short discussion of the methods applied. The article then analyses how the bordershifts create particular material and symbolic outcomes, an experience of ‘displacement in place, and the particular invisibilities created on the ground in the two cases. The article concludes by reflecting on how border-practices produce forms of visibility and invisibility that continue to render people in the borderlands peripheral.Website 
• Brun C, Fabos AH, El Abed O, 'Displaced citizens and abject living: the categorical discomfort with subjects out of place'
  Norwegian Journal of Geography 71 (4) (2017) pp.220-232
  ISSN: 0029-1951 eISSN: 1502-5292
  Abstract This article argues that the political exclusion of displaced people living within states under a variety of humanitarian and policy categories are simultaneously constitutive of mainstream political belonging and social belonging for those excluded. Based on long term research-engagement with displacement in Georgia, Jordan and Sudan, we analyse
  situations where an initial crisis-based humanitarian status becomes protracted, and in which people are labelled forced migrants as well as citizens, giving rise to tensions with the mainstream but also creating social identities that foster belonging from experiences of exclusion. By analysing these processes as ‘abjection’ – forms of state control and boundary-making that exclude members from the very thing that requires their inclusion –  we show that a type of ambiguous citizenship emerges from protracted situations of displacement. Simultaneously, people ‘out of place’ but within a state may exclude themselves from full citizenship rights by nurturing an alternative status derived from their experiences with the state or international humanitarian regime. When established and enduring for a lengthy period, these displacement-statuses, we show here, become social categories and identities through processes of abjection. In conclusion we show how citizenship itself becomes ambiguous through norms of belonging, the formation of new social categories and because forced migrants help to constitute the political. Website 
• Brun C, Fàbos AH, 'Mobilizing home for long term displacement: a critical reflection on the durable solutions'
  Journal of Human Rights Practice 9 (2) (2017) pp.177-183
  ISSN: 1757-9619
  Abstract With long term displacement becoming the ‘new normal’, the three ‘durable solutions’ of local integration, resettlement and return, are increasingly unsuitable for offering social, economic and cultural means for refugees to rebuild their lives and livelihoods. This article retreads some common observations and critiques of the durable solutions, while attempting to find a new vocabulary to help address the conundrum of a refugee protection model that tries to integrate rights and needs. There have been other attempts to revise the durable solutions, introduce new solutions —often acknowledging refugee mobility—or revert to informality as an alternative. However, such attempts have not sufficiently taken into account the extent of what refugees do.
  The consequences are an ‘integration lite’ where people may be able to survive, but their refugee status is not ended, nor is their refugee predicament closer to being addressed. The article suggests a new framework--constellations of home--that can be a significant bridging tool for the gap between rights and needs and that incorporates the static and ahistorical notion of the durable solutions as well as the mobile strategies of refugees in long-term displacement.
   
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• Parrack C, Piquard B, Brun C, 'Shelter in Flux'
  Forced Migration Review 55 (June 2017) (2017) pp.7-9
  ISSN: 1460-9819
  Abstract Current humanitarian guidelines do not sufficiently cover what shelter means in volatile and protracted conflict settings, particularly outside organised camps. We propose improved tools that will address that gap.Website 
• Brun C, 'There is no future in humanitarianism: Emergency, temporality and protracted displacement'
  History and Anthropology 27 (4) (2016) pp.393-410
  ISSN: 0275-7206
  Abstract The humanitarian system and people living with and in long-term refugee situations envisage the future differently. This article explores different notions of the future that may be found in humanitarian policies and among humanitarian workers. Understandings of emergency, crisis and ethics in humanitarianism have particular impacts on how situations of protracted displacement are understood. The policy context for Syrian refugees in Jordan is analysed with particular reference to the ‘humanitarian reason’ which tends to separate between biological and biographical lives. Here, the future and past are separated from the present in a process that decontextualizes forced migrants both temporally and spatially. Through focusing on what humanitarian workers do, practices that challenge currently accepted humanitarian ethics are identified. By way of conclusion, and supported by feminist discussions of temporality and the ethics of care, the article suggests some possible ways of integrating a concept of the future in humanitarianism.Website 
• Refstie H, Brun C, 'Voicing noise: Political agency and the trialectics of participation in urban Malawi'
  Geoforum 74 (2016) pp.136-146
  ISSN: 0016-7185
  Abstract Participation is promoted as the main engine for transformation in urban planning and slum upgrading in Malawi, despite the fact that most projects never get beyond the planning stage. Serious participation fatigue has been identified in many areas, but little is done to change the dominant script. This article comes out of an action research project with groups of urban poor and their organizations in Malawi. It analyses existing spaces in which participatory planning and slum upgrading take place, and reflects on what combinations of participatory spaces that might serve to enable change. The authors define political agency and locate potential transformation in agonistic spaces that open up for rupture and for people’s interest to be accepted as voice rather than noise. At the same time, participants in urban Malawi often wish
  to be included into existing frameworks rather than challenging them. The article therefore explores a third way between a programme of insurgent radical action and the more pragmatic consensus-based participation model practised in Malawi today. Here, the potential for transformation is to be found not within one group or one type of space, but in the ways in which different spaces of participation connect, overlap and partly constitute each other. To better understand the transformative potential of participation in the context of urban planning in Malawi, we thus propose a ‘trialectics’ of participatory spaces where ‘claimed’, ‘invited’ and ‘invented’ dimensions of participation connect, overlap, and open up for ways in which actors
  can meet.
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• Brun C, 'Dwelling in the temporary: the involuntary mobility of displaced Georgians in rented accommodation'
  Cultural Studies 30 (6) (2016) pp.421-440
  ISSN: 0950-2386 eISSN: 1466-4348
  Abstract This article responds to the call from forced migration studies for increased engagement with the mobilities paradigm, as well as to criticism of the mobilities paradigm for not engaging sufficiently with immobility and power relations. The article analyses the experiences and strategies of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in rented dwellings in Tbilisi, in the South Caucasus state of Georgia, who are among the most mobile groups of IDPs in that country. To understand the relationship between mobility and immobility, the article applies Heidegger’s notion of ‘dwelling’ and more recent developments of that notion, together with the discussion between Honneth and Fraser on ‘recognition’. First, the article introduces internal displacement in Georgia. Second, it discusses the housing situation for the IDPs. Third, the theoretical concepts of ‘dwelling’ and ‘recognition’ are developed to enable analysis of experiences and practices of mobility and immobility. Fourth, the various trajectories through which IDPs have come into their rented dwellings are discussed, and processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization and the experience of recognition through the dwelling are analysed. The conclusion addresses the role of dwelling and recognition for efforts to understand the relationship between mobility and immobility.
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• Brun C, 'Active waiting and changing hopes. Toward a time perspective on protracted displacement'
  Social Analysis 59 (1) (2015) pp.19-37
  ISSN: 0155-977X eISSN: 1558-5727
  Abstract This article introduces a time perspective on 'protracted displacement' and seeks to theorize 'agency-in-waiting' through a focus on the ways in which people simultaneously carry on during displacement, feel trapped in the present, and actively relate to alternative notions of the future. The article analyzes the protracted case of internally displaced Georgians from Abkhazia and the dominant discourse of return that characterizes their lives in displacement. Changing notions of hope are analyzed in order to understand the role that an uncertain future plays and the potential for agency that people develop during displacement. Agency-in-waiting and future perspectives, it is suggested, contribute valuable conceptual and political dimensions to the ways in which protracted displacement can be understood and addressed.Website 
• Brun, C, 'Home as a critical value: From shelter to home in Georgia'
  Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees 31 (1) (2015) pp.43-54
  ISSN: 0229-5113 eISSN: 1920-7336
  Abstract Providing shelter and housing is a core area of humanitarian assistance for displaced populations. Georgia, a former Soviet republic in the South Caucasus, has experienced displacement since the early 1990s, and housing has proved to be politically contentious and a major concern during the 20-year displacement crisis. In Georgia, as elsewhere, homemaking takes place during displacement in dwellings that are temporary and not supposed to last. The article explores the conditions that enable such homemaking and discusses what Iris Marion Young terms “home as a critical value.” One trial project is used as an example: the building of 42 small houses, termed “block houses,” in Kutaisi, Western Georgia, by the Norwegian Refugee Council in 2002 and 2003. The article explores the relationships and homemaking practices in and around the houses that people have developed since that date. Relative to others, the project has been a positive example of how to enable home as a critical value. The article first defines house-as-home and introduces the case explored; it then discusses internal displacement and “durable housing solutions” in Georgia, before turning to explore how shelter, housing, home, and homemaking can be conceptualized in displacement. By engaging with Iris Marion Young’s “home as a critical value,” the article analyzes how people have adjusted to and adapted the block houses in Kutaisi to understand the relationship between the houses and the homemaking that takes place within and around them. The concluding section discusses how home as a critical value may help to show the importance of identity and social status for housing strategies in protracted displacement.Website 
• Brun C, Fabos A, 'Making homes in limbo? A conceptual framework'
  Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees 31 (1) (2015) pp.5-18
  ISSN: 0229-5113 eISSN: 1920-7336
  Abstract This article aims to conceptualize home and homemaking for people in protracted displacement. The article serves three purposes: to present an overview of the area of inquiry; to develop an analytical framework for understanding home and homemaking for forced migrants in protracted displacement; and to introduce the special issue. It explores how protracted displacement has been defined—from policy definitions to people’s experiences of protractedness, including “waiting” and “the permanence of temporariness.” The article identifies the ambivalence embedded in experiences and practices of homemaking in long-term displacement, demonstrating how static notions of home and displacement might be unsettled. It achieves this through examining relationships between mobility and stasis, the material and symbolic, between the past, present, and future, and multiple places and scales. The article proposes a conceptual framework—a triadic constellation of home—that enables an analysis of home in different contexts of protracted displacement. The framework helps to explore home both as an idea and a practice, distinguishing among three elements: “home” as the dayto-day practices of homemaking, “Home” as representing values, traditions, memories, and feelings of home, and the broader political and historical contexts in which “HOME” is understood in the current global order and embedded in institutions. In conclusion, the article argues that a feminist and dynamic understanding of home-Home-HOME provides a more holistic perspective of making home in protracted displacement that promotes a more extensive and more sophisticated academic work, policies, and practices.Website 
• Azmi F, Brun C, Lund R, 'Young people’s everyday politics in post-conflict Sri Lanka'
  Space and Polity 17 (1) (2013) pp.106-122
  ISSN: 1356-2576
  Abstract Since the civil war ended in 2009, political spaces in eastern Sri Lanka have remained restricted. The authors examine how young people in areas formerly controlled by or with the presence of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) engage in politics by making safe spaces. A framework for understanding youth politics is presented in order to explain how youths' political spaces are found at the interface of two axes: the axis between political presence and political involvement; and the axis between voiceless politics and vocal politics. Through locating young people's perspectives, practices and realities in relation to these axes, the authors find that war-affected youths in eastern Sri Lanka are stuck in their everyday politics, which prevents their full political presence and involvement. Repolitisation is needed to mobilise youths' political agency.
   
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• Attanapola C, Brun C, Lund R, 'Working gender after crisis: partnerships and disconnections in Sri Lanka after the Indian Ocean tsunami.'
  Gender, Place and Culture 20 (1) (2013) pp.70-86
  ISSN: 0966-369X eISSN: 1360-0524
  Abstract This article focuses on how northern non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their partners, community-based organizations (CBOs), are ‘working’ gender after a crisis. It explores the relationship between one NGO aiming to mainstream gender and a women's CBO in a village in southern Sri Lanka after the 2004 tsunami. The gender policies of the NGO and how the CBO has co-opted these policies are analysed in terms of discourse, interdependence, power and performance. Structural and individual challenges for working gender in post-crisis situations are analyzed and the constraints for making deep reaching changes that can alter gender relations are identified. Because of differences in the conceptualization and implementation of gender policies and practices, the CBO has manoeuvred to maintain its own interests, while the NGO has experienced disconnections in working gender between organizational levels and locations of implementation. In conclusion, it is argued that for changes to take place, knowledge production on gender needs to be locally situated and sensitive to the structural conditions and power relations with which organizations and communities engage.
   
  Este artículo pone su foco en cómo las Organizaciones No Gubernamentales (ONG) y sus socias, las organizaciones basadas en la comunidad (OBC), están ‘trabajando’ sobre el género luego de la crisis. Explora la relación entre una ONG que apunta al mainstreaming de género y a una OBC de mujeres en un pueblo en el sur de Sri Lanka luego del tsunami de 2004. Se analizan las políticas de género de la ONG y cómo la OBC ha cooptado estas políticas en términos de discurso, interdependencia, poder y desempeño. Los desafíos estructurales e individuales para trabajar sobre el género en las situaciones postcrisis son analizados y las limitaciones para hacer cambios profundos que pueden alterar las relaciones de género identificados. Debido a las diferencias en la conceptualización y la implementación de las políticas y las prácticas de género, la OBC ha maniobrado para mantener sus propios intereses, mientras que la ONG ha experimentado desconexiones al trabajar el género entre los niveles organizacionales y los lugares de implementación. En conclusión, se argumenta que para que los cambios ocurran, la producción de conocimiento sobre género necesita estar situada localmente y ser sensible a las condiciones estructurales y a las relaciones de poder con las que las organizaciones y comunidades están en contacto.
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• Brun C, Van Hear N, 'Between the local and the diasporic: the shifting centre of gravity in war-torn Sri Lanka’s transnational politics.'
  Contemporary South Asia 20 (1) (2012) pp.61-75
  ISSN: 0958-4935
  Abstract In May 2009, Sri Lankan government armed forces defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after more than a quarter of a century of civil war. With the elimination of most of the LTTE leadership and the waning of its hold over Tamils in Sri Lanka and abroad, the scene was set for a transformation of relations between the diaspora and those at home. It is the dynamics of this transformation that we explore in this article, which traces the shifting centre of gravity in Tamil politics between actors in the homeland and those in the diaspora. Drawing on Bourdieu's notion of a ‘political field', we characterise what we call the local, diasporic and transnational political fields in the Sri Lankan setting. This article shows how the LTTE's power derived largely from its control of the transnational political field, including in places that were otherwise isolated from diasporic connections. The defeat in 2009 fundamentally changed the dynamics of transnational politics by greatly weakening the LTTE's grip over the transnational political field, and this article explores the new dispensation that is now unfolding.Website 
• Refstie H, Brun C, 'Towards Transformative Participation: Collaborative Research with ‘Urban IDPs’in Uganda'
  Journal of Refugee Studies 25 (2) (2012) pp.239-256
  ISSN: 0951-6328 eISSN: 1471-6925
  Abstract ‘Urban internally displaced persons’ is a contested category in Uganda. Both international and national definitions of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) include, in principle, persons displaced by conflict and dwelling in urban areas. However, existing assistance and protection practices have transformed the IDP label, effectively restricting its application to people residing in IDP camps. Displaced people living in urban areas are perceived either as economic migrants or as former IDPs who have reached a durable solution. This article analyses the process, outcomes and challenges of a collaborative research project between forced migrants, the Refugee Law Project (a national organization), and researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The joint goal of the researchers and urban IDP representatives in the research project was to promote the inclusion of urban IDPs in the IDP label by revealing the political and bureaucratic institutional agency at work in the processes of labelling. This article seeks to demonstrate how such collaborative action research may lead to strengthening the knowledge base regarding forced migration in urban areas, mobilizing communities for advocacy, and influencing the formation of humanitarian categories.Website 
• Brun C, 'Spatial practices of integration and segregation among internally displaced persons and their hosts in Sri Lanka'
  Norwegian Journal of Geography 54 (3) (2010) pp.96-101
  ISSN: 0029-1951
  Abstract This article recounts how a group of Muslim internally displaced persons from the Northern Province of Sri Lanka arrived and settled in the North-Western Province of the island. The account is placed in the context of local integration, as one of the so-called durable solutions for refugees and displaced people. It is argued that it is useful to study integration and segregation as related processes. The main focus of the article concerns the development of resettlement villages for displaced people and how this has made it necessary for local people to reconstruct and redefine their places. One particular confrontation that took place between local Sinhalese people and displaced Muslims is discussed, to show how the negotiation of place may become violent. The article concludes by arguing that, in order for the process of local integration to succeed, active participation by all groups involved in the local integration process is a prerequisite.Website 
• Brun C, Lund R, 'Real Time Research: Decolonising practices or just another spectacle of researcher-practitioner collaboration.'
  Development in Practice 20 (7) (2010) pp.812-826
  ISSN: 0961-4524
  Abstract This article examines the experiences and outcomes from collaboration between a group of researchers and a Northern NGO to improve recovery work in Sri Lanka after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster. A Real-Time Research methodology was established to follow and intervene in the recovery practices as they took place on the ground. What was learned and achieved through this collaboration is assessed, with particular reference to the relationships between various stakeholders in the collaboration.
  
  
  Recherches en temps réel : décolonisation des pratiques de recherche ou simplement un spectacle de plus de collaboration chercheur-praticien?
   
  Cet article examine les expériences et les résultats d'une collaboration entre un groupe de chercheurs et une ONG de l'hémisphère Nord afin d'améliorer les travaux de relèvement menés au Sri-Lanka après la catastrophe du tsunami survenu dans l'océan Indien en 2004. Une méthodologie de recherches en temps réel a été établie pour suivre et intervenir dans les pratiques de relèvement pendant qu'elles avaient lieu sur le terrain. Ce qui a été appris et réalisé à travers cette collaboration est évalué et tourne tout particulièrement autour des relations entre diverses parties prenantes dans la collaboration.
   
  Pesquisa em tempo real: descolonizando práticas de pesquisa ou apenas um outro espetáculo de colaboração entre pesquisador–praticante?
   
  Este artigo examina as experiências e resultados da colaboração entre um grupo de pesquisadores e uma ONG do hemisfério norte para melhorar o trabalho de recuperação no Sri Lanka após o desastre do tsunami no Oceano Índico em 2004. Uma metodologia de Pesquisa em Tempo Real foi estabelecida para se seguir e intervir nas práticas de recuperação conforme elas ocorrem na base. O que foi aprendido e alcançado através desta colaboração é avaliado e trata particularmente das relações entre os vários agentes envolvidos na colaboração.
   
  Investigación en tiempo real: ¿la descolonización de la investigación o sólo una simulación más de colaboración entre investigador e implementador?
   
  Este ensayo analiza los aprendizajes y resultados del trabajo conjunto entre investigadores y una ONG del Norte para mejorar las labores de reconstrucción tras el tsunami que asoló Sri Lanka en 2004. Se diseñó una metodología de Investigación en Tiempo Real para supervisar y modificar la reconstrucción sobre el terreno. El ensayo también analiza los aprendizajes y avances conseguidos a partir del trabajo conjunto, en especial la relación que se estableció entre los distintos actores.
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• Brun C, 'Hospitality: becoming ‘IDPs’ and ‘hosts’ in protracted displacement'
  Journal of Refugee Studies 23 (3) (2010) pp.337-355
  ISSN: 0951-6328 eISSN: 1471-6925
  Abstract The paper engages with Jacques Derrida’s writings on ‘hospitality’ to discuss how, in a situation of protracted displacement in Sri Lanka, policy categories interact with local categories to make particular understandings of ‘internally displaced persons’ (IDPs) and their ‘hosts’. Using the notions of conditional and unconditional hospitality, the paper first shows the political and ethical principles underpinning local and international humanitarian discourses and practices for dealing with internal displacement. Second, the paper analyses how the two categories of IDPs and hosts emerge, are negotiated and redefined by looking at the hospitable engagements between the two groups. The paper analyses how hospitality operates and governs the relationship between IDPs and hosts and consequently shapes particular identities and rights. The paper concludes by indicating the need to encompass both different international humanitarian approaches and local approaches in dealing with internal displacement.Website 
• Brun C, 'A geographers’ imperative? Research and action in the aftermath of disaster.'
  The Geographical Journal 175 (3) (2009) pp.196-207
  ISSN: 0016-7398
  Abstract After the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 a number of academics published texts in attempts to make sense of the disaster. Frustrations and feelings of inability to do something useful to assist were expressed. The academic discussions arising from the disaster may be linked with more general discussions around conducting relevant and responsible research in the social sciences. This paper addresses the role of researchers in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka and explores how the debate following the tsunami can move on to refine researchers’ roles in geography by way of participatory action research (PAR), a research strategy that has received limited attention in research on disasters. The paper begins by situating the debate in the spatial politics of humanitarian work and academic research. Then discussions that arose among geographers in the aftermath of the tsunami are presented and potentials for conducting responsible research by engaging with the field are introduced. In the final section, starting with the notion of responsible research, how PAR can potentially bring us forward in developing principles and tools for more responsible geographical research in the context of emergencies is discussed.Website 
• Brun C, Lund R, '‘Unpacking’ the narrative of a national housing policy in Sri Lanka'
  Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift / Norwegian Journal of Geography 63 (1) (2009) pp.10-22
  ISSN: 0029-1951
  Abstract The article ‘unpacks’ the major policy narrative on housing in Sri Lanka, namely that there is One National Housing Policy (ONHP). Housing schemes have been part of poverty alleviation strategies designed to solve problems of internal displacement due to war, and more recently as part of the major recovery initiatives after the Indian Ocean tsunami event in 2004. The housing policy narrative is explored in a resettlement programme (1970s to date), in a case of war-induced internal displacement (1990s – early 2000), and in post-tsunami recovery (from 2005). The authors ask whether successful practices from the past have been incorporated into the post-tsunami recovery efforts. Although similar in structure and implementation processes – all highly centralised, technocratic, bureaucratic, and top-down – each scheme has its own policy narrative which is based on different local contexts and experiences. Housing plans are never neutral, but embedded in existing situations of tension and are highly politicised. New to the post-tsunami situation is that the housing policy has not sufficiently embedded the reconstruction practices in local realities and people's own preferences and contributions. Ignorance among international organisations about previous housing policies and power relations has led to a silent acceptance of the ONHP.Website 
• Brun C, 'Birds of Freedom. Young people, LTTE and representations of gender, nationalism and governance in northern Sri Lanka.'
  Critical Asian Studies 40 (3) (2008) pp.399-422
  ISSN: 1467-2715 eISSN: ISSN 1467-2715
  Abstract The article explores how the dominant discourses of identity politics in the Sri Lankan conflict have silenced people in northern Sri Lanka and closed spaces for political participation. In order to understand the discursive processes and their material outcomes, the article addresses in particular the role of young people in northern Sri Lanka and explores their relationship to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The author examines the LTTE's discourse on gender, young people, nationalism, and governance through the lens of two books written separately by Anthon Balasingham and by Adele Balasingham. Birds of Freedom, the LTTE's women's wing, is shown to be an example of how the warring parties have monopolized liberation discourse through the uncompromised nationalism of a militant movement. The article discusses how this dominant discourse informs young people's lived experiences, material realities, and life opportunities for participation as social actors in their communities in the Jaffna peninsula. A particular feature of people's everyday lives in northern Sri Lanka is described as a complex citizenship characterized by the presence of several governing and uncompromising actors to whom people must relate. The latter part of the article analyzes the way young people in the north of Sri Lanka relate to this context of complex citizenship, with particular reference to the LTTE.Website 
• Brun C, Lund R, 'Making a home during crisis: Post-tsunami recovery in the context of war, Sri Lanka.'
  Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 29 (3) (2008) pp.274-287
  ISSN: 0129-7619 eISSN: 1467-9493
  Abstract This paper provides insights into the dynamic linkages between the ongoing construction of houses for people displaced by war and disaster, conceptions of homemaking and processes of recovery and reconstruction in the post-tsunami context in Sri Lanka. In so doing, it also uncovers the dilemmas and ambiguities that are embedded in the recovery process. A case from Eastern Province, Sri Lanka illustrates how recovery works in local areas are driven by various stakeholders from outside, whose negotiations and power, voices and preferences, both independently and collectively, define the scope for homemaking processes. Our findings recommend that debates of ‘building back better’ following such disasters should embody an understanding of houses as political, cultural, social and economic constructs, and be cognizant of the wider processes of homemaking.Website 
• Brun C, 'Women in the local/global field of war and displacement'
  Gender, Technology and Development 9 (1) (2005) pp.57-80
  ISSN: 0971-8524
  Abstract War and displacement create specific local/global relationships. This article explores how globalization is not a universal, but a highly contested and contingent experience by analyzing local/global fields of war and displacement in the Sri Lankan civil war. The different involvement with globalization of two different groups of women—the women cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and internally displaced Muslim women working as migrant laborers in the oil-rich Gulf States—is explored. Intersecting spaces of gender, ethnicity and class are analyzed in order to show how specific actors with different social locations make use of their symbolic capital to deal with war and displacement and how these intersections in the local/global fields of war and displacement consolidate and contest social divisions and inequalities.Website 
• Brun C, 'Local citizens or internally displaced persons? Dilemmas of long term displacement in Sri Lanka.'
  Journal of Refugee Studies 16 (4) (2003) pp.376-397
  ISSN: 0951-6328 eISSN: 1471-6925
  Abstract People who seek refuge from conflict, but do not cross an internationally recognized border, have attracted increased attention from the international humanitarian community since the end of the Cold War. While refugees who flee the country may obtain a legal status and protection under the Refugee Convention, IDPs are still under the jurisdiction of their own state, and should in principle have the same rights as other citizens of the country. The article aims at analysing local consequences of people being designated as IDPs, exemplified by Sri Lanka's protracted crisis of internal displacement. Locally, ‘internally displaced persons’ becomes a social category and the meaning of the category is modified from the original definition made by the humanitarian regime. War and the forced and voluntary movement of people within Sri Lanka create unequal access to citizenship rights. The IDP status is often regarded as essential in order to secure special needs for assistance and protection. However, the article shows that the IDP status in Sri Lanka also separates IDPs from other citizens, and may restrict rather than secure rights.Website 
• Brun C, 'Reterritorializing the Relationship between People and Place in Refugee Studies'
  Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 83 (1) (2001) pp.15-25
  ISSN: 0435-3684
  Abstract The article discusses different conceptions of space and place in refugee studies, especially contributions from anthropology and geography. A main distinction is drawn between two understandings of space and place; an essentialist conception, stating a natural relationship between people and places and an alternative conception attempting to de-naturalize the relationship between people and places. The consequences of applying different conceptions of space and place for the development of refugee policies and representations of refugees and displaced persons are addressed. For many displaced persons, displacement is experienced as being physically present at one place, but at the same time having a feeling of belonging somewhere else. It is argued that though attempts to de-naturalize the relationship between people and places have been important for how the refugee experience is conceptualized, there has been too much focus on imagination accompanied by a neglect of the local perspective of migrants and displaced people. In the local perspective of forced migration, the present lives of displaced people are emphasized. Especially the attitudes from the host communities, the policy environment that displaced people are part of, and their livelihood opportunities are the focus of regard. ‘Territoriality’ and ‘reterritorialization’ of the relationship between people and places are discussed as tools to analyse the local perspective of forced migration in general and the strategies of internally displaced persons and their hosts in Sri Lanka in particular.Website 

Book chapters

• Brun C, 'Understanding Protracted Displacement Through the Dwelling: The Temporal Injustice of the Not Quite, Not Yet Solutions to Refugee Crises' in Al-Harithy H (ed.), Urban Recovery: Intersecting Displacement with Post War Reconstruction, Routledge (2021)
  ISBN: 9780367550424
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• Brun C, 'Home as a Multi-scalar Concept' in Paolo Boccagni Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia Milena Belloni (ed.), Thinking Home on the Move, Emerald (2020)
  ISBN: 9781839097225 eISBN: 9781839097225
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• Brun C, Thorshaug RO, 'Privatized housing and never-ending displacement: the temporality of dwelling for displaced Georgians. ' in Silvia Pasquetti; Romola Sanyal (ed.), Displacement. Global Conversations on Refuge., Manchester University Press (2020)
  ISBN: 9781526123466
  
• Brun C, Fàbos AH, 'Home-keeping in Long-term Displacement' in Anindita Datta, Peter Hopkins, Lynda Johnston, Elizabeth Olson, Joseli Maria Silva (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies, (2020)
  ISBN: 9781138057685 eISBN: 9781315164748
  Abstract

  Despite the contemporary rise of long-term refugee displacement, the policies in place to manage it are based on remarkably static notions of home. In our chapter, we use a feminist analysis of ‘home’ to critique binary policies of ‘home’ and ‘not-home’. Instead, we propose that refugees themselves link different temporal and spatial dimensions of home into fluid constellations of home, and maintain these constellations through their mobile home-keeping practices. The multi-dimensional homes that refugees make through their daily house-keeping activities, networking and memory-work, and navigating through the international humanitarian system are recognizable as the shared human experience of home and represent a basis for improved and inclusive policies.
  

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• Hirano S, Serdaroglu E, Abdellaoui J, Adesh T, Alhetar A, Ali M, Argenal E, Arouet C, Ashmore J, Aurouet C, Babister L, Bauman N, Blanc D, Brackett N, Braedt C, Brighton N, Brun C, Cordero RP, Corsellis T, Dalgado D, Daniela R, David G, Davidson S, Dewast C, Doran N, Dummett C, Eynon A, Farme K, Flinn B, Flores M, Genot X, George A, Glenn-Haley K, Grafweg A, Hand P, Hilmi M, Hurkmans B, Illangasinghe M, Illangasinghe M, Jahn I, Joseph S, Karapandi E, Kelly C, Kennedy J, Krolik M, Laasme H, Larraza M, Lu R, Maina E, Malany L, McCaughey JN, McDonald G, McNulty K, Moles O, Moore B, Mounteld B, Nunes N, Opdyke A, Palmer R, Palmer E, Palo T, Parrack C, Piccioli A, Rajczak L, Rao S, Reilly D, Richardson J, Rule A, Sadural A, Sailendra P, Savla M, Sennewald B, Sharma A, Sitko P, Skrine I, Sladden T, Sophonpanich W, Tauk R, Thomas M, Treherne C, Tulio M, Wahlstrom E, Wain J, Williams D, Wisniewski S, Yap G, Zarins J, Zavales J, 'Shelter and Settlement, The Sphere Handbook 2018' in Sphere Handbook, Book (2018)
  ISBN: 9781908176400 eISBN: 9781908176608
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• Azmi F, Brun C, Lund R, 'Young people’s recovery in Eastern Sri Lanka: From war to postwar and beyond.' in Conflict, Violence and Peace, Springer (2016)
  eISBN: 978-981-4585-98-9
  Abstract The intention of this chapter is to inform already existing scholarly narratives of recovery where a perspective of youth is found to be limited. In Sri Lanka, youth are not visible in the general discourse on post-conflict recovery and its manifestations. Given the account by youth about their experiences and strategies during the war and postwar, the chapter shows that multiple transitions take place in the process from war to postwar and not all processes reach all relevant groups. Among youth, multiple restrictions on social and spatial mobility have led to frustrations instead of increasing hopes for a safe, peaceful, and just society. As the research presented in this chapter shows, young people see these restrictions as injustices relating to ethnicity and the histories they have brought with them from living through war. Such experiences of exclusion by the young people of Eastern Sri Lanka show that recovery includes social and cultural aspects and point toward the need for both distributive justice (actions which may benefit the less advantaged groups in postwar Sri Lanka) and corrective justice (actions which may restore a situation of rightful distributions of benefits and resources in the country).Website 
• Azmi F, Brun C, Lund R, 'Between exclusion and political engagement:' in Kallio KP, Mills S, Skelton T (ed.), Geographies of Children and Young People. Politics, Citizenship and Rights, Springer (2015)
  ISBN: 978-981-4585-56-9 eISBN: 978-981-4585-57-6
  Abstract Drawing on findings from research on youths in post-war eastern Sri Lanka, the aim of this chapter is twofold: first, to develop a framework for understanding young people’s everyday engagements with politics in the context of the transitions that a post-war setting involves, and second to develop an understanding of young people’s political everyday engagement in a context where the state has clearly and quickly moved from a post-war stage to a development stage. The authors find that the different experiences of the violent past and a politicized post-war setting continue to play a role in young people’s lives and form a constrained context in which their political engagement is shaped. Unemployment and lack of involvement in on-going development initiatives by the state exclude Tamil and Muslim youths from political spaces and from having a political voice at the national level. Instead they are enmeshed in societal and spatial power relations in a political environment that impacts negatively on their identity construction and subjectivitiesWebsite 
• Brun C, Blaike P, 'Introduction. Alternative Development: Unravelling Marginalization, Voicing Change' in Brun C, Blaikie P, Jones M (ed.), Alternative Development: Unravelling Marginalization, Voicing Change, Ashgate (2014)
  ISBN: 9781472409348 eISBN: 9781315566597
  Abstract

  This book brings together a collection of essays that discuss alternatives to mainstream development thinking and practice, and how these alternatives may affect local and global processes of marginalization and change in the Global South. Alternative development is concerned with identifying and promoting alternative practices and redefining the goals of development. The book takes as its starting point the history of alternative ideas of development by engaging with the work of Professor Ragnhild Lund from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, whose involvement in development geography spans four decades. Ragnhild Lund’s career has balanced academic life with activism and policy work. The essays in the book honour her work by engaging with founding themes of alternative development such as local knowledges and practices, poverty, gender, environment and sustainable development, and by addressing recent debates such as forced migration, conflict and climate change. The themes of the book speak to academics, students of development studies, policy makers and activists in the Global South and North.--Provided by publisher.

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• Brun C, Lund R, 'Geographies of forced migration – researching conflicting spaces and borderland issues' in Alternative Development: Unravelling Marginalization, Voicing Change, Ashgate (2014)
  ISBN: 978-1-4274-0934-8
  
• Brun C, 'Hjem er et annet sted. Hjemproduserende praksiser i midlertidige boliger.' in Setten G, Brun C (ed.), Hus, Hjem og Sted. Geografiske perspektiver på vår samtid., Akademika (2013)
  ISBN: 9788232102075
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• Brun C, '“I love my soldier”. Developing responsible and ethically sound research strategies in a militarised society.' in Mazurana D, Jacobsen K, Gale LA (ed.), Research Methods in Conflict Settings. A View from Below, Cambridge University Press (2013)
  ISBN: 9781107502819 eISBN: 9781139811910
  Abstract Researchers working in difficult situations are often a self-sacrificing and even reckless lot. They work long hours, travel across insecure borders, shrug off sexual harassment and other forms of mistreatment that they would never tolerate back home, expose themselves to incurable diseases (Mertus 2009, 165–6) Every time I return from Sri Lanka I am asked whether I experienced fear. Whether there was any immediate threat. My response has always been negative, “of course not”: one quickly (all too quickly) adjusts to the military presence, the checkpoints, even body searches (Bell 2009, 87) INTRODUCTION “I love my soldier” was the slogan I saw on a T-shirt sold in an outlet shop in Colombo in February 2009. The slogan symbolized an increasingly militarized society and a simultaneous decline of freedom of speech and democratic institutions (de Mel 2007). The T-shirt also reflected the sense of victory among the population of southern Sri Lanka and their support for a military closer than ever to winning the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). This mood culminated in May 2009 when the president of Sri Lanka declared victory over the LTTE and people celebrated in the streets of southern Sri Lanka. Although victory was declared, the conflict has not ended. In this chapter I offer some reflections and analysis of my research experiences and practices in a context of conflict and militarization. Sri Lanka’s history of conflict and militarization has created a society where the silencing of the population is a common act. This creates particular challenges for how researchers conduct fieldwork, understand people’s silences, or make safe spaces where people can talk and the researcher can act as a safe witness. I discuss the challenges of developing ethically sound and responsible research projects in such contexts. My ambition is not to provide a clear-cut formula of how to conduct research in a militarized society, but rather to explore the dilemmas I have encountered in a particular and changing context of conflict.Website 
• Brun C, 'Home in temporary dwellings' in Smith SJ, Elsinga M, Fox O’Mahony L, Eng OS, Wachter S, Dowling R (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Elsevier (2012)
  ISBN: 978-0-08-047171-6
  Abstract A temporary dwelling is the material form and the physical structure of the dwelling in which one resides temporarily, owing to circumstances that are out of the ordinary. This article concentrates on temporary dwellings formed because of various forms of protracted forced migration. While they are considered global issues, most such instances of temporary dwellings have occurred in the Global South. This article introduces these three aspects: (i) the time dimension of temporary dwellings framed as ‘permanent impermanence’; (ii) homemaking in and around the temporary dwelling; and (iii) how home in temporary dwellings may be understood in the context of the wider community in which they are located. The article concludes by presenting solutions to the challenges posed by temporary dwellings.Website 
• Brun C, Van Hear N, 'Shifting between the local and global: space, power and politics in war-torn Sri Lanka' in Toft Madsen S, Nielsen KB, Skoda U (ed.), Trysts with Democracy: Political Practice in South Asia, Anthem Press (2011)
  ISBN: 9780857287731
  
• Jazeel T, Brun C, 'Spatial Politics and Postcolonial Sri Lanka' in Brun C, Jazeel T (ed.), Spatialising politics. Culture and geography in postcolonial Sri Lanka, Sage (2009)
  ISBN: 9788178299297 eISBN: 9788132112549
  Abstract IntroductionWebsite 
• Brun C, 'IDPs and hosts as constitutive categories in protracted displacement' in Fernando P, Fernando K, Kumarasiri M (ed.), Forced to move - involuntary displacement and resettlement – policy and practice, Centre for Poverty Analysis (2009)
  ISBN: 9789551040550
  
• Brun C, Jazeel T, 'Concluding thoughts' in Bun C, Jazeel T (ed.), Spatialising politics. Culture and geography in postcolonial Sri Lanka, Sage (2009)
  ISBN: 9788178299297
  Abstract Chapter 10Website 

Other publications

• Fabos AH, Brun C, 'Protracted Refugee Displacement in the Middle East: Making home in Limbo?'
  (2016) Website 
• Brun C, Attanapola C, 'Professionalization of Humanitarian Work. The Norwegian Case. Report European universities on the Professionalization on Humanitarian Action (EUPRHA).'
  (2015) Website 

Areas of expertise

Conferences

Selected invited talks and keynotes:

(2020) Education in Emergencies 20 years on. Panel debate organised by the Centre for Lebanese Studies, Beirut 15th December 2020.

(2019) Research collaborations with nongovernmental organisations and civil society: the spectacle continues or a potential for decolonising research? Invited talk, Danish Institute of International Studies, Copenhagen, 22.10.2019

(2019) Understanding protracted displacement through the dwelling Invited talk for City Debates 2019 on ‘Urban Recovery(s): Intersecting Displacement and Reconstruction’, American University of Beirut, 1-3 April 2019.

(2018) Refugees as City Makers. Invited intervention at launch of report, American University of Beirut, September 2019.

(2018) Revisiting the relationship between people and place in refugee studies. Keynote for the International conference on Conflict and Migration in the Middle East. Institute of Migration Studies with the L’institut Français du Proche-Orient 4^th to 6^th June 2018

(2018) Shelter in flux: the temporality of dwelling in crises. Invited Keynote, International conference Homeless Dwelling: Devastating and Discrete Disaster. Perspectives on societal domiciles and habitation in everyday life. University of Bremen and the Mariann Steegmann Institute. Bremen, 3^rd to 6^th May 2017.

(2017) Humanitarianism in a different key? Principled pragmatism for long term refugee crises. Invited talk, Department of Geography seminar series, UCL, 28.11.2017

(2017) Integration by Internally Displaced Persons. Lessons learnt from international examples. Keynote at Council of Europe National Forum: 3 years of displacement: challenges and good practices of IDPs integration. Kyiv, 19-20 October, 2017.

(2017) The case for an ethics of care in humanitarianism’s inbetween spaces. Invited talk. Seminar series of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, 16^th October.

(2017) Mobility, informality and the material. Conceiving home in protracted displacement. Keynote at the International Conference on Homing, University of Trento, Italy, June 5^th and 6^th, 2017.

Other publicity

Selected research reports, papers, blogposts and op-eds.

(2020) Education in Emergencies: five critical points for shifting the power. Blog-post jointly published by the Centre for Lebanese Studies  and the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice, https://cendep.blogspot.com/2020/12/education-in-emergencies-five-critical.html (with Maha Shuayb

(2020) For young Syrian refugees, education and employment cannot remain apolitical, Open Democracy, 20th November 2020, https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/north-africa-west-asia/young-syrian-refugees-education-and-employment-cannot-remain-apolitical/ (with M. Shuayb)

(2017) Shelter in Flux. Forced Migration Review no 55, June 2017, https://www.fmreview.org/shelter.html?utm_source=FMR+55+Shelter+in+displacement+-+online&utm_campaign=FMR+Alert+Eng+55+online&utm_medium=email (with C. Parrack and B. Piquard)

(2016) Protracted Refugee Displacement in the Middle East: Making home in Limbo? Policy Paper for the Middle East Institute, published 01.06.2016, https://www.mei.edu/content/map/protracted-circumstances-refugee-displacement-middle-east-making-home-limbo (with A.H. Fábos)

(2015) Professionalization of Humanitarian Work. The Norwegian Case. Report European universities on the Professionalization on Humanitarian Action (EUPRHA). http://hamap.euprha.org/upload/2015/03/euprha-lcp-norway.pdf (with C. Attanapola)

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