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“Ticktin’s lucid book is a challenge and a promise. She shows how difficult it is to free political and moral imagination from the peculiar category of innocence. But such effort can resolve into the opportunity—and obligation—to refresh conviviality, in persistent opposition to partition, efficiency, and despair.” * Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Abolition Geography * “From the debates on immigration to the justification of mass violence, our moral world is divided between innocent and guilty, legitimizing either protection or oppression. Ticktin’s important and profound book unveils the political and ethical stakes of this problematic distinction.” * Didier Fassin, Collège de France * “Building on Ticktin’s earlier work on the new humanitarianism, Against Innocence takes that initial, important intervention in broader, groundbreaking directions.” * Nadia Abu El-Haj, Barnard College and Columbia University *

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Miriam Ticktin is professor of anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center and director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. She is the author of Casualties of Care and the coeditor of In the Name of Humanity.

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