eprintid: 10206229
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creators_name: Baumann, Hanna
creators_name: Moore, Henrietta L
title: Towards a Relational Understanding of Vulnerability: The Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon Through a Feminist Lens
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C04
divisions: J76
keywords: Displacement, Lebanon, Refugees, Syria, Vulnerability, Humanitarianism
note: © 2025 SAGE Publications. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
abstract: Recent debates on vulnerability have considered how to best define and measure it in order to account for the various factors that shape people’s susceptibility to harm. This article reads humanitarian and development notions of vulnerability against the relational and interdependent view put forward by feminist scholars. Such a conceptual interrogation, which examines the broader assumptions underpinning aid programming, is especially relevant as vulnerability has become a key metric for eligibility for support in a range of global contexts. Examining two approaches used for assessing and alleviating vulnerability deployed in the response to the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon, we show that the tools utilized by aid programmes reflect particular views of how vulnerability operates. In examining those conceptualizations through the lens of recent development and feminist thinking on vulnerability, we foreground the interdependence of different groups, the generative nature of this interdependency, as well as the interlocked nature of scales involved in producing (and alleviating) vulnerability. Adopting such a relational and dynamic view of vulnerability, we argue, can open possibilities for more inclusive and transformational development approaches.
date: 2025-01
date_type: published
publisher: SAGE Publishing
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934241303301
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2357465
doi: 10.1177/14649934241303301
lyricists_name: Moore, Henrietta
lyricists_name: Baumann, Hanna
lyricists_id: HLMOO34
lyricists_id: HBAUM48
actors_name: Moore, Henrietta
actors_id: HLMOO34
actors_role: owner
funding_acknowledgements: CI170095 [British Academy]
full_text_status: public
publication: Progress in Development Studies
volume: 25
number: 1
pagerange: 26-44
pages: 19
citation:        Baumann, Hanna;    Moore, Henrietta L;      (2025)    Towards a Relational Understanding of Vulnerability: The Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon Through a Feminist Lens.                   Progress in Development Studies , 25  (1)   pp. 26-44.    10.1177/14649934241303301 <https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934241303301>.       Green open access   
 
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