Marianne Potvin

Marianne Potvin is PhD student at Harvard University. She has worked for several years with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and other humanitarian aid organizations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Chad (Darfur Border). Her current research focuses on the genealogy of humanitarian space.

Kabul: the humanitarian city

Initially mandated to protect and assist, the humanitarian project in Kabul has significantly reshaped the city over the past decade. In the absence of democratic control, and in the face of pervasive neoliberal logics, what happens to Kabuli's right to the city?

By Marianne Potvin

/ 15 Nov 2013