Peter Redfield’s scientific contributions

... The notion of beneficence, motivated by human compassion and construed as humanitarian solidarity and a moral response to suffering and injustice, has been especially strongly contested (Fassin, 2007;Bornstein and Redfield, 2011;Ticktin, 2016;Chouliaraki, 2019). Over the past decade, social scientists have called for a closer empirical and theoretical examination of the core principles, underlying behaviours, and forms of intervention characterising humanitarian action (see, for example, Kleinman, 2007;Mosse, 2011;Redfield, 2013;Abramowitz and Panter-Brick, 2015;Allen, 2015;Malkki, 2015;Roth, 2015). More specifically, they have investigated the interactions between first-hand narratives and everyday practices, to explicate what these can reveal about local moral worlds (Kleinman, 2007), the subjectivities of humanitarian workers (Good et al., 2014), ethics and governance (Abramowitz, Marten, and Panter-Brick, 2014), and forms of power (James, 2022). ...

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Public discourse narratives: from 'Secret Aid Worker' discontent to shifting power in humanitarian systems