Emergent Agency in a Time of Covid-19

Our research examined both local and transnational civil society responses to the migration crisis and advanced our understanding of how civil society actors engaged in collective action to counter the social boundaries of the nation-state system in relation to migration and welfare, to forge new meanings and practices of wellbeing and care.

Dr Armine Ishkanian

 

 

Concluded project in the Movements, Policy and the Politics of Inequality theme within the Politics of Inequality research programme 

The COVID-19 crisis has led to a flood of written material and webinars. Most international coverage of the crisis in low- and middle-income countries concentrates on the impact of the disease and the official response, for example the impact of governments’ lockdown measures on citizens. What often goes missing is an examination of human agency – how individuals, communities and grassroots organisations respond to the new challenges, both of the disease and the official response, and how this agency is emerging or changing in its nature. The Emergent Agency in a Time of COVID-19 initiative looks at this missing element. 

 

People

Dr Duncan Green 
Professor in Practice in International Development, LSE and Senior Strategic Adviser at Oxfam GB  Email: D.J.Green@lse.ac.uk

Dr Irene Gujit
Head of Evidence and Strategic Learning, Oxfam GB 
Email: iguijt1@oxfam.org.uk 

Filippo Artuso
Research Manager, Oxfam GB 
Email: fartuso1@oxfam.org.uk

Katrina Barnes
Evidence Uptake Lead, Oxfam GB 
Email: kbarnes@oxfam.org.uk

Niranjan Nampoothiri 
Portfolio Research Assistant, Institute of Development Studies 
Email: n.nampoothiri2@ids.ac.uk

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