{"product_id":"9783032419439","title":"Autoethnographic Reflections on Humanitarianism and Resilience","description":"\u003ch3\u003eContemporary Humanitarian Action and Emergency Management\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eAutoethnographic Reflections on Humanitarianism and Resilience\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSandra Carrasco | Leanne M. Kelly | Kirstin Kreyscher\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Social Work\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the politics of knowledge in humanitarianism, disaster resilience, and development practice through a collection of autoethnographic and reflective accounts by researchers, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners. Drawing on experiences across diverse institutional, cultural, and political contexts, the contributors examine how humanitarian, resilience, and development interventions are shaped not only by technical frameworks and evidence-based systems, but also by positionality, ethical judgment, emotional labor, professional identities, and everyday negotiations of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePositioning autoethnography as both a qualitative research methodology and a critical epistemological intervention, the book interrogates how dominant forms of knowledge are produced, legitimized, and operationalized within aid, disaster risk reduction, resilience-building, and development systems. It discusses the limits of standardized evaluation, accountability mechanisms, and technical expertise, while highlighting the significance of embodied, relational, and contextually situated knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrganized around three interconnected themes — contexts and power, identities and roles, and critical and transformative perspectives — the chapters address issues including researcher positionality, humanitarian advocacy, decolonial practice, gender norms, trauma, care, professional ethics, remote research, and institutional constraints.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy bringing personal experience into dialogue with broader structures of authority, inequality, and knowledge production, \u003cem\u003eAutoethnographic Reflections on Humanitarianism and Resilience\u003c\/em\u003e offers a nuanced contribution to scholars and advanced students in humanitarian and development studies interested in critical and decolonial perspectives on contemporary humanitarian and development practice and disaster resilience. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSandra Carrasco\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Peruvian-Australian academic and Lecturer in Humanitar-ianism and Development at Deakin University, Australia. Her work focuses on disaster resilience, community-based disaster risk reduction, humanitarian re-sponse, post-disaster recovery, migration, and inclusive development. She has more than a decade of research and professional experience across Latin Ameri-ca, Asia, and Oceania. She collaborates with communities, governments, NGOs, and international partners to strengthen resilience, social inclusion, and equitable development. Her research adopts participatory, people-centered approaches that value local knowledge and diversity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeanne M. Kelly\u003c\/strong\u003e is a pracademic scholar whose work spans development studies, humanitarianism, evaluation, conflict, disasters, and community resilience. With more than 20 years of experience as an evaluator and humanitarian-development practitioner, her research explores how civil society organizations respond to complex crises and how evaluation can strengthen evidence-informed practice. She currently holds a Deakin University Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and collaborates with partners across Australia, Asia, and Africa to advance conflict sensitivity, resilience, and evidence use in crisis-affected settings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKirstin Kreyscher\u003c\/strong\u003e is an educator and researcher working across development studies, disasters, climate change, and conflict. Her academic work focuses on critical disaster studies examining young people’s knowledge, actions, and lead-ership in multi-hazard environments through arts-based, visual methods. She holds a research position at Southern Cross University, Australia, investigating effective child participation in climate change education, and lectures in Community-based Disaster Risk Management at Charles Darwin University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26 December 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032419439\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e268\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59911845609612,"sku":"9783032419439","price":143.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032419439.jpg?v=1790166973","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032419439","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}