The Global Shelter Imaginary
IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief
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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- isbn978-1-4529-6655-7
- issn2373-5074
- publisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
- publisher placeMinneapolis, MN
- restrictionsAll 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.
- rightsCopyright 2021 by Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher
- rights holderDaniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher
- series number47
- series title
- doi