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Isabelle Desportes is a Research Fellow at the Disaster Research Unit, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on the (hidden) politics of disaster prevention and humanitarian response, including in authoritarian conflict settings.

Alice Corbet is an anthropologist working for the French National Centre for Scientific Research. She does consulting work for non-governmental organisations and works on the issues of refugees and displaced persons, encampment and humanitarian relations.

Ayesha Siddiqi is a University Lecturer at the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Her research examines postcolonial geographies of disasters.