In this lecture, I seek to decolonise the conventional role of the researcher/architect by thinking of my encounter with the refugee camp from my position as an Arab Muslim Woman. I deliberate the story of my access to the refugee camp through one of the international NGOs operating there. I speak out the many times I had been dislocated from my position as an researcher/architect, and the other roles I had to claim along the months of my fieldwork. While critiquing the racialized, classed and gendered hierarchies according to which the humanitarian NGO work is operated, I incorporate other modes of seeing
allowed by this dislocation from my conventional role as a researcher to speculate on the possibility for other ethical modes of “response”.Eventually, this lecture argues for “feminist transpositions” as a methodology for a “critical praxis” of research. “Feminist transpositions in the Refugee Camp” not only accounts for the difficult ethical questions implied in a multiplicity ofpositions, but also permits the researcher to think of practices of decolonising research beyond the coloniser-colonised binary.