| The Global Shelter Imaginary: Ikea Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief Contributor(s): Herscher, Andrew (Author), Monk, Daniel Bertrand (Author) |
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ISBN: 1517912229 ISBN-13: 9781517912222 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $9.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Philanthropy & Charity - Political Science | Ngos (non-governmental Organizations) - Architecture | Criticism |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 4.9" W x 6.8" (0.17 lbs) 96 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |