Akademische und nicht-akademische Tätigkeiten

• Seit April 2021: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im BMBF-Forschungsprojekt ‘Tsunami Risk in Indonesien’ an der Katastrophenforschungsstelle
• 2016-2020: Promovendi und Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Dutch Research Council Projekt ‘When Disaster meets Conflict’ am International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
• 2015-2016: Projektbeauftragte (COP21), Internationale Föderation des Roten Kreuzes, Genf
• 2015: Projektkoordinatorin, Coalition Climat 21 und Alternatiba Strasbourg
• 2014-2015: Consultant, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Addis Ababa
• 2014-2015: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin für den NGO-Verband ‚Partners for Resilence’, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
• 2012-2014: Studentische Hilfskraft, Universiteit van Amsterdam
• 2013: Praktikantin, Department of Environmental Ressource Management, City of Cape Town
• 2011: Praktikantin, UNDP Regional Centre for Europe and Central Asia, Bratislava
• 2010: Praktikantin, Max Havelaar France, Paris

Studium

• 2016-2020: PhD, ISS, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
• 2012-2014: M. Sc. Research Master International Development Studies (cum laude), Universiteit van Amsterdam
• 2013: Studien- und Forschungsaufenthalt in Südafrika, University of Cape Town
• 2008-2011: B.Sc. Geographie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Mitgliedschaften

• Civic Innovation Forschungsgruppe am International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
• IHSA – International Humanitarian Studies Association
• EADI – European Association of Development Institutes
• Les Afriques dans le Monde (LAM), Institut d’Études Politiques de Bordeaux

Gutachtertätigkeiten

• Die Friedens-Warte - Journal of International Peace and Organization 
• Les Cahiers d´Outre-Mer
• Development and Change
• Disaster Prevention and Management
• International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
• Journal of Disaster Risk Studies: Jamba
• Journal of International Humanitarian Action
• South African Geographical Journal
  
  

• Disasters - Master thesis evaluation for the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

• WS und SS 2022/2023 Masterarbeitsbetreuung, MA Disaster Risk Management, School of Environmental Studies, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta
• WS und SS 2022/2023 Masterarbeitsbetreuung, Geografische Entwicklungsforschung, Freie Universität Berlin
• SS 2022 ‘Katastrophen und Konflit’. Gastvortrag im Seminar ‚Politische Ökologie‘, Bachelor Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Freie Universität Berlin
• SS 2018/2019 ‘The Humanitarian Theatre in Ethiopia – Analysing Discourses of the Disaster-Conflict Nexus’. Gastvorträge im Seminar ‘Violent Conflict and the Politics of Media Representation’, Master in Development Studies, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
• WS 2017/2018 Masterarbeitsbetreuung, Universiteit van Amsterdam
• WS 2013-2014, ‘Participatory Research Methods’, ‘Geographical Information Systems’. Gastvorträge und Tutorat im Seminar ‘Fieldwork Methods’, Faculty of Geography, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Sozialwissenschaftliche Katastrophenforschung zu Katastrophengenese, -kulturen und -schutz
• Humanitäre Hilfe und deren De·politisierung
• Resilienz und Anpassung an den Klimawandel
• Konfliktforschung, Zivilgesellschaft und politische Mobilisierung

Herausgeberschaften

• Corbet, Alice; Desportes, Isabelle (2023): Politique de l’humanitaire, humanitaire politique? Special Edition of: Les Cahiers d’Outre-Mer, Vol.75.

Artikel in Fachzeitschriften (peer-reviewed)

• Desportes, Isabelle (2023): Craindre le politique: La réponse humanitaire aux catastrophes dites « naturelles » en Birmanie (2015), Éthiopie (2016) et au Zimbabwe (2016-2019). In: Cahiers d’Outre Mer, Vol. 75 n°286, S. 335-371.

• Corbet, Alice; Desportes, Isabelle (2023): Introduction au numéro spécial. Politique de l’humanitaire, humanitaire politique? In: Cahiers d’Outre Mer, Vol. 75 n°286, S. 313-328.

• Desportes, Isabelle; Moyo-Nyoni, Ntombizakhe (2021): Depoliticising disaster response in a politically saturated context: the case of the 2016–2019 droughts in Zimbabwe. In: Disasters, 46(4), S.1098-1120. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12516.

• Desportes, Isabelle; Hilhorst, Dorothea (2020): Disaster governance in conflict-affected authoritarian contexts: The cases of Ethiopia, Myanmar and Zimbabwe. In: Politics and Governance, 8(4), S. 343-354. Online verfügbar unter https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/3127.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2019): Getting relief to marginalised minorities: The response to cyclone Komen in 2015 in Myanmar. In: International Journal of Humanitarian Action, 4(7), S. 1-16. Online verfügbar unter https://jhumanitarianaction.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41018-019-0053-z.

• Desportes, Isabelle; Mandefro, Hone; Hilhorst, Dorothea (2019): The humanitarian theatre: Drought response during Ethiopia's low-intensity conflict of 2016. In: The Journal of Modern African Studies, 57(1), S. 31-59. Online verfügbar unter https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-modern-african-studies/article/humanitarian-theatre-drought-response-during-ethiopias-lowintensity-conflict-of-2016/AA45003D9410B321640B51546A5D6BE4.

• Kuipers, Erin H.C.; Desportes, Isabelle; Hordijk, Michaela (2019): Of locals and insiders: A ‘localized’ humanitarian response to the 2017 Mocoa mudslide in Colombia? In: Disaster Prevention and Management, 29(3), S. 352-364. Online verfügbar unter https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-12-2018-0384/full/html.

• Hilhorst, Dorothea; Desportes, Isabelle; de Miliano, Cecile (2019): Humanitarian governance and resilience building: Ethiopia in comparative perspective. In: Disasters, 43, S. 109-131.

• Desportes, Isabelle; Colenbrander, Darryl R. (2016): Navigating interests, navigating knowledge: Towards an inclusive set-back delineation along Cape Town’s coastline. In: Habitat International, 54(2), S. 124-135. Online verfügbar unter https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0197397515303143.

• Desportes, Isabelle; Waddell, Joy; Hordijk, Michaela (2015): Improving flood risk governance through multi -stakeholder collaboration: A case study of Sweet Home informal settlement, Cape Town. In: South African Geographical Journal, 98(1), S. 61-83. Online verfügbar unter https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03736245.2015.1052842.

Artikel in Sammelbänden (peer-reviewed)

• Hilhorst, Dorothea; Mena Fluhmann, Rodrigo; van Voorst, Roanne; Desportes, Isabelle; Melis, Samantha (2019): Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Response in Different Conflict Scenarios.Opens external. In: Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) 2019. Geneva: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Online verfügbar unter https://www.preventionweb.net/publications/view/65903.

Blogs und Zeitungsbeiträge

• Desportes, Isabelle (2020): Disaster response: Why democracy matters. (blog). European Association of Development Institutes Blog – Debating Development Research. Online verfügbar unter http://www.developmentresearch.eu/?p=743.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2020): Another top priority in times of crisis: Keep democratic life up and running. (blog). blISS - The ISS Blog on Global Development and Social Justice. Online verfügbar unter https://issblog.nl/2020/03/26/covid-19-another-top-priority-in-times-of-crisis-keep-democratic-life-up-and-running-by-isabelle-desportes/.

• Hilhorst, Dorothea; Desportes, Isabelle (2019): Counter-terrorism laws are undermining humanitarian relief, and are set to get worse today. (blog).Oxfam Blogs. Online verfügbar unter https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/13/11/2019/counter-terrorism-laws-are-undermining-humanitarian-relief-and-are-set-get-worse.

• Hilhorst, Dorothea; Desportes, Isabelle (2019): De anti-terrorisme wet heeft een lelijk neveneffect. (newspaper opinion piece). Trouw. Online verfügbar unter https://www.trouw.nl/nieuws/de-anti-terrorismewet-heeft-een-lelijk-neveneffect~b7cd5e5c/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F.

• van Voorst, Roanne; Desportes, Isabelle (2018): (How) should scholars say what humanitarians can't? (blog). blISS - The ISS Blog on Global Development and Social Justice. Online verfügbar unter https://issblog.nl/2018/05/16/how-should-scholars-say-what-humanitarians-cant-by-roanne-van-voorst-and-isabelle-desportes/.

Working-Paper/Forschungsberichte

• Desportes, Isabelle; Wicaksono, Wicak und Voss, Martin (2024): Disaster*Cultures – Indonesia and its Tsunami Warning System. KFS Working Paper Nr. 32. Berlin: KFS. Available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-42225.

• Hilhorst, Dorothea; Vervest, Marie-José; Desportes, Isabelle; Melis, Samantha; Mena, Rodrigo; van Voorst, Roanne (2021): Strengthening community resilience in conflict. The Hague: Partners for Resilience. Online verfügbar unter https://library.partnersforresilience.nl/pages/view.php?ref=525&k=.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2020): Politics of disaster response in authoritarian low-intensity conflict settings. ISS Research brief. The Hague: International Insitute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Online verfügbar unter https://www.iss.nl/en/media/2021-01-lic-brief-final.

• Hilhorst, Dorothea; Desportes, Isabelle; Melis, Samantha; Mena, Rodrigo; van Voorst, Roanne (2020): When Disaster Meets Conflict: A scenario-based approach to the politics of disaster governance in conflict settings. ISS Research brief. The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Online verfügbar unter https://www.iss.nl/en/media/2020-12-research-brief-lessons-disaster-governance-and-humanitarian-action.

• Hilhorst, Dorothea; Vervest, Marie-José; Desportes, Isabelle; Melis, Samantha; Mena, Rodrigo; van Voorst, Roanne (2020): Strengthening community resilience in conflict: learnings from the Partners for Resilience programme.Opens external. ISS Working Papers - General Series, no 666. The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Online verfügbar unter http://hdl.handle.net/1765/131291.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2019): Myanmar: The controversial issue of minorities in responding to cyclone Komen in 2015. ISS Research brief. The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Online verfügbar unter https://www.iss.nl/en/media/2019-04-cyclone-komen-response-myanmar.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2019): Ethiopia: Responding to the 2016 drought amid political protest and a state of emergency. ISS Research brief. The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Online verfügbar unter https://www.iss.nl/en/media/2019-04-drought-response-ethiopia.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2015): Partners for Resilience in Ethiopia, Country Case for the Qualitative Process and Impact Study. Groningen: University of Groningen.

Vorträge (Auswahl)

• Desportes, Isabelle (2022): United Nations Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. Nusa Dua, Indonesien (Teil der deutschen Delegation).

• Desportes, Isabelle (2022): Catastrophes en conflit – Dépolitiser la réponse humanitaire à la sécheresse au Zimbabwe. Séminaire du LAM Les Afriques dans le Monde, Sciences Po Bordeaux. Bordeaux, Frankreich.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2021): Depoliticising humanitarian action: Motives, practices, consequences. Panel mit Alice Corbet auf der Conference of the International Humanitarian Studies Association. Paris, Frankreich.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2021): Compartementalizing in the disaster-conflict nexus. Vortrag auf der EADI European Association of European Development Institutes Conference. Den Haag, Niederlande.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2020): Médecins Sans Frontières Humanitärer Kongress. Berlin (virtuell) (Teilnahme als Mitglied der akademischen Gemeinschaft).

• Desportes, Isabelle (2020): Politics and perceptions: How disaster responders navigate authoritarian low-intensity conflict settings. Politologenetmaal. Nijmegen (virtuell), Niederlande.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2020): Disaster ruptures, repression and resistance. Vortrag mit Flora Nei Bawi auf der DSA Development Studies Association Conference. Birmingham (virtuell), Vereinigtes Königreich.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2019): Médecins Sans Frontières Humanitärer Kongress. Berlin (Teilnahme als Mitglied der akademischen Gemeinschaft).

• Desportes, Isabelle (2019): Political crises at times of drought - The case of the 2016-2019 humanitarian response in Zimbabwe. Vortrag mit Nthombizakhe Moyo-Nyoni auf der ECAS European Conference of African Studies. Edinburgh, Vereinigtes Königreich.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2019): Minority support: the balancing act of getting relief to minorities following 2015 cyclone Komen in Rakhine State, Myanmar. Vortrag auf der IHSA Conference of the International Humanitarian Studies Association. Den Haag, Niederlande.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2018): Localization in practice: a balancing act for disaster responders in 2015 Myanmar. NEEDS Northern European Emergency and Disaster Conference Conference. Amsterdam, Niederlande.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2017): The Humanitarian Theatre Drought response in 2016 low-intensity conflict Ethiopia. Vortrag mit Hone Mandefro auf der Conference of the European Association of Development Institutes. Bergen, Norwegen.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2016): Citizen without a state: Humanitarian aid in different conflict scenarios. Vortrag mit Dorothea Hilhorst und Samantha Melis, DSA Development Studies Association Conference. Oxford, Vereinigtes Königreich.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2016): Building resilience in practice? Lessons from the Partners for Resilience programme. Vortrag auf der IHSA International Humanitarian Studies Association Conference. Addis Abeba, Äthiopien.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2015): Climate Change COP21 Summit. Paris, Frankreich (Teilnahme als Mitarbeiterin der Internationalen Föderation des Roten Kreuzes und des Roten Halbmonds).

• Desportes, Isabelle (2013): Balancing stakes, balancing knowledge: The process of drawing a set-back line along Cape Town’s coastline. Vortrag mit Darryl Colenbrander, ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability Forum. Bonn.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2013): Barriers to multi-stakeholder collaboration for flood prevention and response in Sweet Home informal settlement, South Africa. Vortrag mit Joy Waddel und Michaela Hordijk, ClimUrb. Manchester, Vereinigstes Königreich.

Abschlussarbeiten

• Desportes, Isabelle (2020): Repression Without Resistance: Disaster Responses in Authoritarian Low-Intensity Conflict Settings. EUR (153 pag.) (The Hague). Prom./coprom.: prof.dr.ir. D.J.M. Hilhorst & R. Van Voorst.

• Desportes, Isabelle (2014): We’ve got to address the underlying causes. A case-study of stakeholders ́ initiatives to increase resilience to flood riskinSweet Home informal settlement, Cape Town. University of Amsterdam (114 pag.). Amsterdam. Supervision : dr. M. Hordijk.