About Bram J. Jansen

Bram J. Jansen is assistant professor of disaster studies at the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University (the Netherlands), where he lectures and writes on humanitarian and refugee issues. He conducted ethnographic fieldwork in East Africa and the Horn of Africa, mostly in Kenya, where he wrote a doctoral dissertation on the urbanization of protracted refugee camps, titled The Accidental City: Violence, Economy and Humanitarianism in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya (2011), and more recently in South Sudan, where he studied humanitarian governance and the negotiation of insecurity.