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.
