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Reconceptualizing vulnerability and safeguarding in the humanitarian and development sector
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posted on 2023-06-09, 22:45 authored by Gabrielle Daoust, Synne DyvikSynne DyvikSince 2018, “safeguarding” has been hailed as the answer to abuse, exploitation, and harassment in the humanitarian and development sector. However, safeguarding as a concept relies on conceptions of vulnerability, which are rarely critically interrogated. Bringing feminist, postcolonial, and critical disability studies to bear on what is conventionally viewed as an apolitical policy response, we argue that the need for safeguarding should be located within wider racialized, gendered, ableist, and geographic structures of power within which the sector is embedded. We conclude with theoretical reflections and directions for change centering intersectional and repoliticized conceptualizations of vulnerability and thus safeguarding.
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Social Politics: international studies in gender, state, and societyISSN
1072-4745Publisher
Oxford University PressExternal DOI
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1-24Department affiliated with
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2021-01-12Usage metrics
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