Moving On? The Act of Remembering Humanitarian Aid and the Shaping of Normative Experiences

What is it about?

This article draws on the experience of ‘get togethers’ among veteran field workers recorded in 2016 who recalled work experience from the 1980s – often stressing in their account their memories and the part this period played in their lives. This source can now help us analyse the formation of meaningful experience of the concept of experience. Using further archives of normative processes which drew from 'lessons learnt' and 'experience' to shape the rulebooks of the1990s humanitarian aid industry. Using interviews, oral history as well as new archives and diaries, this paper will consider how humanitarians have reflected on normative experiences

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