This reading list gathers articles and videos published between February and June 2024.
ConferenceOn Thursday 19 September 2024 at 6.30pm, the Crash team was delighted to welcome Priscille Sauvegrain for a conference on medical practices in maternal health in France and the role played by racial categories.
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Jacob BurnsAnalysisIn this paper, Jacob Burns analyzes MSF's activities in the provision of social support. In the introduction, he suggests a rough outline of different ‘social’ problems that MSF has turned to between the 1980s and the 2010s. The second part of the paper is a report of a field visit conducted in October – November 2023 to Goma, DRC.
Nasir GhafoorAnalysisCet article de Nicolas Dodier s’appuie sur les premiers résultats d’une enquête, basée sur la consultation d’archives et la réalisation d’entretiens, relative à la mise en œuvre de programmes de chirurgie par l’organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
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Ben MilpasIn the mediaOn 11 June 2024, Rony Brauman was invited alongside with journalist Shirli Sitbon and nonresident Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib on France 24 English to talk about the situation in Gaza. During the interview, the former president of MSF evokes the ongoing starvation and the need for a ceasefire.
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In the mediaRony Brauman a été interviewé à propos de l’affaire Julian Assange le 17 avril 2024, l'entretien est mené par Nadia Genet du Comité de soutien Assange.
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ConferenceOn 27 June 2024, the Crash team welcomed the journalist and essayist Adam Shatz for a lecture on Frantz Fanon.
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ConferenceOn 6 June 2024, MSF France's Green Team and the Crash team will be delighted to welcome Lana Whittaker, Kévin Jean and Aina Roca Barceló for a conference on heatwaves.
ConferenceOn Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 6:30pm, the CRASH team welcomed Emilie Medeiros, Eloïs Voisin and Raphaël Torlach for a conference/debate on the situation of the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
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Isabel Corthier DossierThis Crash dossier gathers a selection of Crash publications published over the last twenty years: all of them, in different manners, tackle the themes of racism and humanitarian action. They also evoke the way discussions about racism have been addressed at Médecins sans Frontières.
Alex Yallop/MSFDossierWith the cold war over, refugees have lost their status as an instrument of western soft power, whereas with the economic crisis and terrorism, hostility towards migrants is increasing. Prevailing representations of migration movements are convincing a growing proportion of the European population that migrants are a threat and refugees a burden. This file contains a collection of publications (articles, opinion columns, blog articles, press releases, CRASH papers) from 1990 to date, focusing on two themes : 1° the dichotomy between hospitality policy and migration policy, 2° camps approached from a number of different angles.
Brendan BannonDossierSeveral texts by members and associates of the CRASH published between 1994 and 2014 are united in this collection. In 2017, a book joins these publications: Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings: Médecins Sans Frontières, the Rwandan experience (1982-1997)
Djerabe NdegrgarOpinionThis article was published on December 26th, 2022 on the Souk, the MSF associative website.
Accusing the mothers of malnourished children of being lawless fraudsters is a well-worn trope in malnutrition treatment programmes worldwide – and one that has resurfaced recently in Nigeria, stirred up by health workers and the media. These types of accusations obscure a series of tricky truths on the control of resources, the quality of malnutrition treatment programmes, and on the extreme precariousness in which many families live. We see all of this in northwest Nigeria’s Katsina state, where we are currently conducting the largest malnutrition programme in the history of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
Aurelie Baumel/MSFInterviewConfronted with a "totally unprecedented biological, social and political event", Jean-Hervé Bradol spoke with Mediapart about the difficulties of basing all prevention on behavioural measures: "It takes time for a society to fully acknowledge the existence of the event, which is unfolding as it tries to understand it.”
Pierre-Yves BernardAnalysisUn récit de politique-fiction illustrant l'utilisation politique d'une action de secours.
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