Human Protection in the Wake of Order: Assembling Agents, Rationalities and Practices
Name of applicant
Chiara De Franco
Title
Associate Professor
Institution
University of Southern Denmark
Amount
DKK 935,000
Year
2025
Type of grant
Monograph Fellowships
Summary
As wars intensify, human protection faces new challenges. This book moves beyond seeing it as a liberal project in decline, showing how protection arises across conflict zones through messy, negotiated practices where soldiers, aid workers, and diplomats align, and clash. It reframes protection as plural, improvised, and political, opening space for new ways of thinking and acting.