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• Runner-up for The Global Shelter Imaginary 2022

Overview

Examines how the humanitarian order advances a message of moral triumph and care while abandoning the dispossessed Prompted by a growing number of refugees and other displaced people, intersections of design and humanitarianism are proliferating. From the IKEA Foundation's Better Shelter to Airbnb's Open Homes program, the consumer economy has engaged the global refugee crisis with seemingly new tactics that normalize an institutionally sanctioned politics of evasion. Exploring ""the global shelter imaginary,"" this book charts the ways shelter functions as a form of rightless relief that expels recognition of the rights of the displaced and advances political paradoxes of displacement itself.

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Author:   Andrew Herscher ,  Daniel Bertrand Monk
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 17.80cm
ISBN:  

9781517912222

ISBN 10:   1517912229
Pages:   96
Publication Date:   13 July 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable  
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Daniel Bertrand Monk is professor of geography and Middle Eastern studies at Colgate University. Andrew Herscher is associate professor of architecture at the University of Michigan.

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