This article reads notions of ‘vulnerability’ employed in the humanitarian response to the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon against recent feminist and urbanist debates on the links between infrastructure and vulnerability. In doing so, it seeks to introduce and grapple with some of the key term..
Hanna Baumann
Hanna Baumann is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Bartlett, University College London. Having completed her PhD on the infrastructures of im/mobility in East Jerusalem at the Cambridge Centre for Urban Conflicts Research in 2017, her current work examines the role of infrastructures in processes of urban exclusion/inclusion of non-citizens: How do public services influence urban politics on embodied, affective, and symbolic registers? How are collective claims made around the common goods distributed by urban networks?