The Global Shelter Imaginary

IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief

Daniel Bertrand MonkAuthorAndrew HerscherAuthor

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.

Background photo of Ann Hirsch and Jeremy Angier’s SOS installation in Toronto by James Beheshti on Unsplash

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Metadata

  • isbn
    978-1-4529-6655-7
  • issn
    2373-5074
  • publisher
    University of Minnesota Press
  • publisher place
    Minneapolis, MN
  • restrictions
    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
  • rights
    Copyright 2021 by Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher
  • rights holder
    Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher
  • series number
    47
  • series title
    Forerunners: Ideas First
  • doi
    https://doi.org/10.5749/9781452966557