The Global Shelter Imaginary: Ikea Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief

The Global Shelter Imaginary: Ikea Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief

By Andrew Herscher  and Daniel Bertrand Monk

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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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Publish date July 13, 2021
Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Format Paperback
Pages 96
Language Eng
ISBN 9781517912222
1517912229

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