Humanitarianism's History of the Singular

Authors

Miriam Ticktin, CUNY Graduate CenterFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 2015

Abstract

In “The New Universalism” Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher bring together global history and global humanitarianism to argue the emergence of a new (perverse) universal singular—a monadological refugee and form of refuge that threaten to efface both. By putting shelter and displacement side by side, they insightfully point us to different global patterns, such as the turn to the principle of the particular. Monk and Herscher read these patterns against the grain, offering us—almost in passing—a new history of humanitarianism.

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This article was originally published in Grey Room, available at https://doi.org/10.1162/GREY_a_00186