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Published in: Human Studies 3/2019

20-02-2019 | Book Review

Kelly Oliver: Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention

University of Minnesota Press, 2017, 85 pp, +Index, $7.95

Author: Eric Aldieri

Published in: Human Studies | Issue 3/2019

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Bridging carceral studies, political theory, and Derridean thought, Kelly Oliver, in her (2017) book Carceral Humanitarianism: The Logics of Refugee Detention, offers a clear analysis and emphatic critique of contemporary humanitarianism’s imbrication with practices of refugee detention. Defining carceral humanitarianism as “the outgrowth of humanitarian warfare in which war and aid are two sides of state sovereignty,” Oliver (p. 7) demonstrates how humanitarian responses to the multiple, produced refugee crises both shore up state sovereignty, and, in affirming an “ethics” of pure utilitarian calculability, implicitly affirm a genocidal logic that risks the worst at each turn. …
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Literature
Arendt, H. (1968). The origins of totalitarianism. San Diego: Harcourt.
Oliver, K. (2017). Carceral humanitarianism: Logics of refugee detention. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.CrossRef
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Title
Kelly Oliver: Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention
University of Minnesota Press, 2017, 85 pp, +Index, $7.95
Author
Eric Aldieri
Publication date
20-02-2019
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Human Studies / Issue 3/2019
Print ISSN: 0163-8548
Electronic ISSN: 1572-851X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-019-09498-3

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