This podcast is the result of a a research led by Ludovic Joxe, sociologist and humanitarian aid worker for Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières/MSF). Each episode uses the Google NoteBookLM tool to discuss the content of a different article published by Ludovic Joxe in an academic journal in recent years. The written version of each article is avalaible online (https://cv.hal.science/ludovic-joxe) or can be requested from Ludovic Joxe (ludovic.joxe@gmail.com).
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Find us on iTunes: http://msf.me/25aBFeU Welcome to Everyday Emergency, bringing you true stories from people on the frontline of humanitarian emergencies across the world. Everyday Emergency is the official Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) podcast.
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“Saving the world, or at least alleviating some of the world's pain, is supposed to be rewarding. But care and healthcare activities are also known to be the most exposed to professional stress and burn-out. What then is happening in the humanitarian sector, and more specifically at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), a sector at the convergence of the…
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“Saving the world, or at least alleviating some of the world's pain, is supposed to be rewarding. But care and healthcare activities are also known to be the most exposed to professional stress and burn-out. What then is happening in the humanitarian sector, and more specifically at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), a sector at the convergence of the…
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“Saving the world, or at least alleviating some of the world's pain, is supposed to be rewarding. But care and healthcare activities are also known to be the most exposed to professional stress and burn-out. What then is happening in the humanitarian sector, and more specifically at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), a sector at the convergence of the…
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“Saving the world, or at least alleviating some of the world's pain, is supposed to be rewarding. But care and healthcare activities are also known to be the most exposed to professional stress and burn-out. What then is happening in the humanitarian sector, and more specifically at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), a sector at the convergence of the…
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“Saving the world, or at least alleviating some of the world's pain, is supposed to be rewarding. But care and healthcare activities are also known to be the most exposed to professional stress and burn-out. What then is happening in the humanitarian sector, and more specifically at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), a sector at the convergence of the…
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“Saving the world, or at least alleviating some of the world's pain, is supposed to be rewarding. But care and healthcare activities are also known to be the most exposed to professional stress and burn-out. What then is happening in the humanitarian sector, and more specifically at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), a sector at the convergence of the…
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This podcast discusses the fact that humanitarian mission conditions limit local integration and the analytical article on which this podcast is based suggests three forms of attachment: home (“break expatriates”), elsewhere (“multi‑homeland expatriates”) or nowhere (“duty‑free expatriates”). For the latter, MSF plays, until their departure from th…
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In the humanitarian sector, dedicated to alleviating people’s suffering, how to qualify a misconduct and impose a potentially painful sanction? How can one judge, i.e. consider that everyone is responsible for their act, in a working area based on the fact that human inequalities are partly due to social determinisms? To what extent tolerating devi…
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What meaning does the notion of off-work have when employees, such as those at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), remain constrained by their uninterrupted world of work for months on end?Di Ludovic Joxe
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Over the past thirty years or so, players in the international aid sector have sought to involve the populations they work with more closely in a movement of “southernization”. At MSF, this movement has resulted in a diversification of the origin of “expatriates”. This diversification would in fact lead to a partial depoliticization of the organiza…
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In this podcast, we discuss the notion of politicization from an anthropological perspective, considering the organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as a society of individuals in its own right, with its institutions, rules, norms and modes of operation, and seeking to understand who within it is legitimate to express themselves, who is listen…
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By defining precariousness as a period of undergone uncertainty, this article aims to grasp how the tension between militant ideal and managerial imperative of the organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), present since its foundation, has been translated into the form of a managerial policy sometimes perceived as an opportunity, sometimes as a …
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In this podcast, we discuss the fact that, at MSF, mobility experiences are accumulable, mobilizable, convertible, depreciable and transmissible. Based on that, we suggest that, while these experiences are not always mobilized by those who have them to climb the formal internal hierarchy, they do, in any case, enable them to gain decision-making po…
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In this podcast, we discuss the notion of disinterestedness within Doctors Without Borders (MSF). This podcast reveals three gradations of interest: first, interestedness, the gradation where individual material and symbolic rewards are recognised by the individuals, then, disinterestedness, second gradation where the rewards are a priori collectiv…
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This podcast examines the acceptance of the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the areas where it operates. It focuses in particular on the individual memberships of direct aid beneficiaries and the more general recognition of the organization by the local social fabric.Di Ludovic Joxe
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Over the past thirty years, as the humanitarian sector has become increasingly professional, and society has recognised the importance of psychological well-being, Médecins Sans Frontières’ managers have accepted that an employer is responsible for the mental health of its employees. Following on from the mental-health theme of our last issue, the …
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The first war of independence of Chechnya with the Russian Federation starts in 1994 and runs for two years. In 1999, while the country and its people are still struggling to recover, the Russian authorities start bombing Chechnya again. Through these tough years in the North Caucasus and when access is repeatedly blocked by the Russian forces, MSF…
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While the Russian Federation President, Boris Yeltsin talks publicly about a peace plan, his forces carry out a ruthless bombing campaign on rebel-held villages in southern Chechnya. MSF sections are united in wanting to speak out about what their staff witnessed before being forced out of the region, but there’s vigorous debate on how best to draw…
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With hostilities in Chechnya flaring up again in what the Russian Federation terms as “anti-terrorist operations”, MSF leaders decide to use the ceremony of the reception of Nobel Peace Prize to call on the international community to intervene. But MSF teams are struggling to work in a Chechnya facing all-out war and dangerous security problems. In…
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Throughout the year 2000, MSF seizes every opportunity to raise the alarm on the Chechen’s fate with governments and institutions around the world, but to little concrete effect other than general condemnation. With still no international staff in the country, MSF sections resort to so-called ‘remote control’ management, using locally hired employe…
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MSF’s operations in Chechnya are slowly starting back up again after 3 years of being run remotely. Although the bombing stops, general insecurity is pervasive and restarting these programmes is not without risks.With an international team back on the ground in Chechnya, everyone agrees on the need to document the situation more thoroughly. A colle…
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Kidnappings are becoming more commonplace in Chechnya and closer to home for MSF as various staff members are held for questioning. Then, a key member of the team in the North Caucasus is taken hostage and questions are asked as to whether there's a causal link between MSF’s decision to speak out in the media and the kidnapping? Other difficult que…
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MSF’s operations have been closed down in Chechnya in response to the MSF Coordinator’s kidnapping. After his release, three weeks later, MSF tries to restart its operations in Chechnya but there are delays due to security issues, and for now, the only programmes in the country are run through remote control management from Dagestan, on Chechnya ea…
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The situation in the North Caucasus is getting more and more violent as the Russian federal authorities is trying to forcibly repatriate Chechen refugees and force humanitarian organisations out of Ingushetia. When colleagues at other organisations are kidnapped in Chechnya, MSF closes down all operations in the country again. With a diminishing in…
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In August 2002, the threat to MSF becomes a reality and another Coordinator, a Dutch national, is kidnapped in Dagestan. The organisation is once again faced with the dilemma whether it should speak out in the media about the kidnapping or not. MSF opts to keep quiet at first, but as the weeks turn into months and the MSF Coordinator is still not r…
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Warning: This episode contains testimony related to child deaths that some listeners may find distressing.A new report by MSF lays bare the cruelty of the long-term detainment of more than 50,000 people, the majority of whom are children, in Al-Hol, northeast Syria.The camp was once designed to provide safe, temporary accommodation and humanitarian…
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In 1996, MSF attempts to alert the international community about the resurgence of conflict in eastern Zaire, as witnessed by teams on the ground. The perpetrators of the Rwandan Tutsi genocide, living in refugee camps, threaten and attack the Zairean civilian population. The same perpetrators are holding Rwandan refugees that fled the 1994 genocid…
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As the instability of the region increases, MSF and other humanitarian organisations are eventually forced out of eastern Zaire entirely. MSF suspects that thousands of refugees are suffering and at risk of dying. The organisation decides to launch an appeal for an armed international intervention and communicates about the plight of the population…
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In November 1996, the offensive led by the ADFL and Rwandan forces empties the camps in eastern Zaire of their population. Some refugees were repatriated to Rwanda and others fled into the neighboring forest. MSF denounces the repatriation conditions and is reproached by the press for "catastrophic" forecasts made a few weeks earlier.…
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Finally allowed into South Kivu, a province in eastern Zaire, the MSF teams discover that refugees are being massacred by the ADFL and its allies, particularly in the Massisi and the Shabunda regions. MSF realises that MSF teams are used as bait by the ADFL to lure the refugees out of the forests and kill them.…
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The ADFL takes control of all of the Kivu province and refugees continue to flee their rapid advance eastwards through the forest. MSF struggles to maintain access to the refugees amidst the violence, restrictions, and threats to team safety, while receiving continued reports about refugee massacres.…
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In May 1997, MSF published a new study describing the movements of refugees in the Great Lakes region of Africa and the fate of refugees. MSF planned to distribute the report to a small group of journalists, asking them not to cite MSF as the source of the information. However, a lack of communication between MSF offices and with the teams in the f…
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From mid-1997, MSF teams try to work together again. The organisation publishes retrospective studies that trace the odyssey of the Rwandan refugees through the Zairean jungle and contributes testimony to international investigations on human rights violations in the region.Di Doctors Without Borders
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MSF's exploratory mission teams complete their reports on their Masisi and Shabunda visits. Details of mass graves, massacres, and the fact that the ADFL used humanitarian teams as bait to lure refugees out of the forests, sent shock waves through MSF offices. A debate about the use of the information collected ensued: should it be made public or n…
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