Subversive Humanitarianism: Rethinking Refugee Solidarity through Grass-Roots Initiatives

摘要: Across Europe, hundreds of thousands volunteers have brought food, clothes, medicines, and numerous others forms support to newly arrived refugees. While humanitarian action has always been subversive, I argue that the recent wave civil actions pushed its subversive effects one step further. Whereas more modest tend misrecognise recipients' social political subjectivities, their counterparts can be better understood as enacting a particularistic form solidarity emphasises precisely those subjectivities. To explore potential for innovation in these initiatives, it useful do so through lens "subversive humanitarianism". More concretely, suggest following seven dimensions with which character any compared across time space: acts disobedience; reconstitution subjects; contending symbolic spaces; creation spaces personal bonds; assuming equality; putting minds into motion; transformation individuals' life-worlds. argument by drawing upon empirical studies on initiatives continent well my own ethnographic data Brussels-based Plateforme Citoyenne de Soutien aux Refugies.