New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 14, no. 1, Spring 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Meredith Terretta, Human Rights, Revolutionary Humanitarianism, and African Liberation In 1970: Unsettling Discontinuities in Human Rights History
• Rohit De, The Jurisprudence of Decolonization: The Postcolonial Career of D. N. Pritt and the Labor of Insurgent Lawyering
• Andrew Ivaska, Learning from Dar Es Salaam: Harvard’s “Project Tanganyika” And A Nodal Perspective on Decolonization’s Itineraries
• Joshua Mentanko, The Limits of Pharmaceutical Internationalism: Mexico, the Third World, and The Resource of Medicinal Plants in the 1970s
• Jessica Lynne Pearson, Decolonizing the Sky: Global Air Travel at the End of Empire
• Robert A. Karl, Sovereignty Beyond Decolonization: Post-Imperial British Policing and Colombian Criminal Justice, C. 1960–1975
• Charlotte Kiechel & Zaib un Nisa Aziz, Global History And Decolonization: A Moment Of Possibility, A Call For Integration
• Ntina Tzouvala, The “Unwilling or Unable” Doctrine and the Political Economy of the War on Terror
• Nicole Georges, Force-Feeding and “The Right to Maim”: Hunger Strikes at Guantánamo Bay

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 13, no. 3, Winter 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Jean-Michel Turcotte, The Major Humanitarian Dilemma of Neutrality: The International Committee of The Red Cross and Prisoners of War in Korea, 1950–1953
• Pedro Silva Rocha Lima, A Managerial Humanitarianism: The International Committee of the Red Cross and The Risk Management of Armed Violence in Greater Rio De Janeiro
• Malay Firoz, Epistemics of Aid: Toward a Liminal Critique of Resilience in the Syrian Crisis
• Alexandra S. Moore, Cultural Renditions of Guantánamo and the War on Terror
• Mansoor Adayfi, The Beautiful Guantánamo
• Kalyan Nadiminti, The Detainee's Two Bodies: Intellectual Property and Fugitivity at Guantánamo Bay
• Esther Whitfield, From Guantánamo to The Global South: Mohammed El-Gharani in Literature and Art
• Safiyah Rochelle, This Is What It Looks Like: Searching for Law's Afterlife in Guantánamo
• Mohamedou Ould Salahi, My Guantánamo Writing Seminar

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 13, no. 2, Summer 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Gregory Mann, The World Won’t Listen: The Mande “Hunters’ Oath” and Human Rights in Translation
• Diren Valayden & Jakob Feinig, Humanization as Money: Modern Monetary Theory and the Critique of Race
• Imogen Dobie, “Ambulances of the Sea”: The Terracization of Maritime Aid
• Ryan Martínez Mitchell, The Human Community of Fate: A Conceptual History of China’s Ordoglobal Idea
• Christiane Wilke & Mohd Khalid Naseemi, Counting Conflict: Quantifying Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan
• Samuel Dinger, Coordinating Care and Coercion: Styles of Sovereignty and the Politics of Humanitarian Aid in Lebanon
• Frédéric Mégret, Human Rights Populism

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 13, no. 1, Spring 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Megan Black, Doc Savage Saves the World: a Pop Culture Origin Story for Us Modernization and Development, 1933–1949
• Kojo Koram, Drug Prohibition and the Policing of Warfare: The War on Drugs, Globalization, and the Moralization of Perpetual Violence
• Whitney Russell, Agents of Sacrifice: Victims and Human Rights in North India
• Dossier: Shaping a Global Horizon, New Histories of the Global South and the UN
• Alanna O’Malley & Vineet Thakur, Introduction: Shaping a Global Horizon, New Histories of the Global South and the UN
• Emma Kluge, A New Agenda for the Global South: West Papua, the United Nations, and the Politics of Decolonization
• Stella Krepp, Fighting an Illiberal World Order: The Latin American Road to UNCTAD, 1948–1964
• Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo & José Pedro Monteiro, “Colonialism on Trial”: International and Transnational Organizations and the “Global South” Challenges to The Portuguese Empire (1949–1962)

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 12, no. 3, Winter 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Raymond Aron, Friedrich Hayek, and "The Third World": An Alternative History of the End of Ideology Debate
• Stacey Hynd, Constructing the Child Soldier Crisis: Violence, Victimhood, and the Development of Transnational Advocacy Against the Recruitment and Use of Children in Conflict, Circa 1970–2000
• Dossier: Deexceptionalizing Displacement
• Heath Cabot & Georgina Ramsay, Deexceptionalizing Displacement: An Introduction
• Bridget Anderson, Methodological De-Nationalism: De-Exceptionalizing Displacement, Re-Exceptionalizing Citizenship
• Michelle Munyikwa, Locating Refuge: Racialized Displacement and the Spatial Politics of Belonging
• Nicole Constable, Simultaneous Citizen and Noncitizen: Displacement, Precarity, and Passports in Hong Kong
• Susan Bibler Coutin, Jennifer M. Chacón, Stephen Lee, Sameer Ashar, & Jason Palmer, Shapeshifting Displacement: Notions of Membership and Deservingness Forged by Illegalized Residents
• Heike Drotbohm, "Not A Cozy Dwelling": Exploring Aspirational Anxieties and the Politics of Displacement in São Paulo's Squats
• Georgina Ramsay, Displacement and the Capitalist Order of Things

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 12, no. 2, Summer 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Sharif Youssef, Refugees and the Rise of the Novel: Trespass, Necessity, and Humanitarian Casuistry in the Long Refugee Crisis
• Karin Loevy, The Balfour Declaration’s Territorial Landscape: Between Protection and Self-Determination
• Yakov Feygin, Dreaming of a “New Planning”: Development and the Internationalization of Economic Thought in Late Soviet Reformist Politics
• Anna Grimaldi, European Media Coverage of Brazil’s New Human Rights: 1964–1985
• Benjamin P. Davis, The Promises of Standing Rock: Three Approaches to Human Rights
• Ben Golder, Critiquing Human Rights

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 12, no. 1, Spring 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Ria Kapoor, Removing the International from the Refugee: India in the 1940s
• Katharine White, Germany and Colonia Dignidad: Colonial Entanglement, Medical Humanitarianism, and Human Rights Abuses in Chile
• Valeska Huber & Jan C. Jansen, Dealing with Difference: Cosmopolitanism in the Nineteenth-Century World Of Empires
• Claude Markovits, Cosmopolitanism and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century British India
• Francisco A. Ortega, Postcolonial Cosmopolitan Republicanism: A Conceptual Approach to Nineteenth-Century New Granada/Colombia
• Martin Rempe, Respect!: Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Cosmopolitan Challenge
• Alison Bashford, The Family of Man: Cosmopolitanism and the Huxleys, 1850–1950
• Jürgen Osterhammel, Concluding Essay: Cosmopolitanism as Doctrine, Attitude, and Practice

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 11, no. 3, Winter 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Jennifer Johnson, The Contradictions of Sovereignty: Development, Family Planning, and the Struggle for Population Control in Postcolonial Morocco
• Michelle Carmody, Making Human Rights Effective? Amnesty International, “Aid and Trade,” and the Shaping of Professional Human Rights Activism, 1961–1983
• Laura Kunreuther, Earwitnesses and Transparent Conduits of Voice: On the Labor of Field Interpreters for UN Missions
• Tom Scott-Smith, Building a Bed for the Night: The Parisian “Yellow Bubble” and the Politics of Humanitarian Architecture
• Oishik Sircar, “A Deep and Ongoing Dive into the Brutal Humanism That Undergirds Liberalism”: An Interview with Jasbir K. Puar
• Lasse Heerten, Anti-Slavery and Indentured Labor in the Age of Global Empire
• Christof Royer, The Conundrum(s) of Political Violence

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 11, no. 2, Summer 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Leslie Barnes, Live-Tweeting And Distant Suffering: Nicholas Kristof As Global Savior
• Kavita Ramakrishnan & Ludĕk Stavinoha, Beyond Humanitarian Logics: Volunteer-Refugee Encounters In Chios And Paris
• Dossier: Moral Economy
• Jeremy Adelman, Introduction: The Moral Economy, The Careers Of A Concept
• Francesca Trivellato, The Moral Economies Of Early Modern Europe
• Tim Rogan, R. H. Tawney
• Marion Fourcade, The Imperfect Promise Of The Gift
• Didier Fassin, Are The Two Approaches To Moral Economy Irreconcilable?
• Emilio Kourì, On The Mexican Ejido
• Margaret R. Somers, The Moral Economy Of The Capitalist Crowd: Utopianism, The Reality Of Society, And The Market As A Morally Instituted Process In Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation
• Samuel Moyn, T. H. Marshall, The Moral Economy, And Social Rights
• Timothy Shenk, “I Am No Longer Answerable For Its Actions”: E. P. Thompson After Moral Economy
• Joel Isaac, Moral Economy In Its Place: The Contribution Of James C. Scott

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 11, no. 1, Spring 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Dossier: Technologies of Stateness
• Nehal Bhuta & Guy Fiti Sinclair, Introduction: Technologies of Stateness
• Megan Donaldson, The League of Nations, Ethiopia, and the Making of States
• Stephen Legg, Imperial Internationalism: The Round Table Conference and the Making of India in London, 1930–1932
• Guy Fiti Sinclair, Forging Modern States with Imperfect Tools: United Nations Technical Assistance for Public Administration in Decolonized States
• Corinna R. Unger, Development Projections: The World Bank in Calcutta in the 1970s
• Sara Kendall, Inscribing the State: Constitution Drafting Manuals as Textual Technologies
• Luis Eslava & Sundhya Pahuja, The State and International Law: A Reading from the Global South
• Ole Jacob Sending, Afterword: International Organizations and Technologies of Statehood

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 10, no. 3, Winter 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Mark Bray, Beyond And Against The State: Anarchist Contributions To Human Rights History And Theory
• Vibhuti Ramachandran, Saving The Slaving Child: Domestic Work, Labor Trafficking, And The Politics Of Rescue In India
• Dossier: Human Rights And Economic Inequality
• Daniel Brinks, Julia Dehm, & Karen Engle, Introduction: Human Rights And Economic Inequality
• Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes & Sergio Chaparro Hernandez, Inequality, Human Rights, And Social Rights: Tensions And Complementarities
• Radhika Balakrishnan & James Heintz, Human Rights In An Unequal World: Structural Inequalities And The Imperative For Global Cooperation
• Richard Falk, Global Inequality And Human Rights: An Odd Couple
• Jason Hickel, The Imperative Of Redistribution In An Age Of Ecological Overshoot: Human Rights And Global Inequality
• Antony Anghie, Inequality, Human Rights, And The New International Economic Order
• Julia Dehm, Righting Inequality: Human Rights Responses To Economic Inequality In The United Nations
• James K. Galbraith, Inequality, Debt, And Human Rights: What Can We Learn From The Data?
• Dennis Davis, Taxation And Equality: The Implications For Redressing Inequality And The Promotion Of Human Rights
• Neville Hoad, “I Don’t Want To Live In A World Where People Die Every Day Simply Because They Are Poor”: From The Treatment Action Campaign To Equal Education, From Stories Of Human Rights To The Poetics Of Inequality

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 10, no. 2, Summer 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Roman Birke, “It Is UndertThe Banner of the Defence of Human Rights That We Shall Gather Our Crusade”: Human Rights and the Population Control Movement from the 1940s to the 1970s
• Christie Miedema, Impartial in the Cold War? The Challenges of Détente, Dissidence, and Eastern European Membership to Amnesty International’s Policy of Impartiality
• Denis Kennedy, Humanitarianism Governed: Rules, Identity, and Exclusion in Relief Work
• Samantha Balaton-Chrimes, Desiring the Other and Decolonizing Global Solidarity: Time and Space in the Anti-Vedanta Campaign
• Margaret MacDonald, The Image World of Maternal Mortality: Visual Economies of Hope and Aspiration in the Global Campaigns to Reduce Maternal Mortality

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 10, no. 1, Spring 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Benjamin Thomas White, A Grudging Rescue: France, the Armenians of Cilicia, and the History of Humanitarian Evacuations
• Jo Guldi, World Neoliberalism as Rebellion From Below?: British Squatters and the Global Interpretation of Poverty, 1946–1974
• Jason Zhu, Chinese Humanism: From Revolution to Redemption
• Amy Kapczynski, The Right to Medicines in an Age of Neoliberalism
• Erica Bornstein, The Report: A Strategy and Nonprofit Public Good
• Nicholas Mulder, The Rise and Fall of Euro-American Inter-State War

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 9, no. 3, Winter 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Jessica Whyte, The "Dangerous Concept of the Just War": Decolonization, Wars of National Liberation, and the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions
• Megan Cole Paustian, A Postcolonial Theory of Universal Humanity: Bessie Head's Ethics of the Margins
• Golnar Nikpour, Claiming Human Rights: Iranian Political Prisoners and the Making of a Transnational Movement, 1963–1979
• Christy Thornton, A Mexican International Economic Order? Tracing the Hidden Roots of the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States
• A. Naomi Paik, Representing the Disappeared Body: Videos of Force-Feedings at Guantánamo
• Dossier on Asylum/Home
• Michal Heiman, A New Community of Women 1855–2019
• Michal Heiman, Return: Asylum (The Dress, 1855–2019)
• Orna Ben-Naftali, The Asylum and its Discontents: Reflections on Michal Heiman
• Sharon Sliwinski, The Woman Who Walks Through Photographs
• Edward B. Rackley, Dictates of Conscience in the Humanitarian System

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 9, no. 2, Summer 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Joseph Massad, Against Self-Determination
• Emma Stone Mackinnon, Promise-Making and the History of Human Rights: Reading Arendt with Danto
• Eva-Maria Muschik, The Art of Chameleon Politics: From Colonial Servant to International Development Expert
• Darcie Fontaine, The Politics of Neutrality: Cimade, Humanitarianism, and State Power in Modern France
• Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti, Catholic Social Doctrine and Human Rights: From Rejection to Endorsement?
• Betsy Konefal, Memory Offensives Where Impunity Reigns

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 9, no. 1, Spring 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Matthew Hilton, Oxfam and the Problem of NGO Aid Appraisal in the 1960s
• Joël Glasman, Measuring Malnutrition: The History of the MUAC Tape and the Commensurability of Human Needs
• Paul Morrow, A Theory of Atrocity Propaganda
• Dossier on Human Rights Rituals
• Benjamin Authers, Hilary Charlesworth, Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, & Emma Larking, Introduction
• Zachary Manfredi, Sharpening the Vigilance of the World: Reconsidering the Russell Tribunal as Ritual
• Tobias Kelly, Two Cheers for Ritual: The UN Committee Against Torture
• Shane Chalmers, The Beginning of Human Rights: The Ritual of the Preamble to Law
• Roland Burke, The Rites of Human Rights at the United Nations
• Essay Review
• Joshua Busby, Beyond Good Intentions: Responsible and Effective Advocacy in the Digital Age

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 8, no. 3, Winter 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Ana Stevenson, The "Great Doctrine Of Human Rights'': Articulation and Authentication in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. Antislavery And Women's Rights Movements
• Lyndsey Stonebridge. Humanitarianism Was Never Enough: Dorothy Thompson, Sands of Sorrow, and the Arabs of Palestine
• Joseph R. Slaughter, Life, Story, Violence: What Narrative Doesn't Say
• Sumi Madhok, On Vernacular Rights Cultures and the Political Imaginaries of Haq
• Contemporary Refugee Timespaces
• Angela Naimou, Preface
• Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, On Humanitarian Architecture: A Story of a Border
• Maurizio Albahari, Beyond Europe, Borders Adrift
• Adam Goodman, The Human Costs of Outsourcing Deportation
• Tanya Golash-Boza, An Immigration and Customs Enforcement Home Raid Before Church
• Gilberto Rosas, Refusing Refuge at the United States–Mexico Border
• Sharif Youssef, Necessary Decisions
• Yogita Goyal, The Logic of Analogy: Slavery and the Contemporary Refugee
• Crystal Parikh, The Innocents: Reading Refugees in National Culture and Diasporic Literatures
• Alexandra Schultheis Moore, Anglophone Novels from the Tibetan Diaspora: Negotiations of Empire, Nation, and Culture
• April Shemak, Haitian Refugees and the Guantánamo Public Memory Project: Remembering Haitian Refugees
• John McCallum, War and the Historical Sociology of Human Rights: Violent Entanglements

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 8, no. 2, Summer 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Dossier on Transformative Occupations in the Modern Middle East
• Simon Jackson & A. Dirk Moses, Transformative Occupations in the Modern Middle East
• Simon Jackson, Transformative Relief: Imperial Humanitarianism and Mandatory Development in Syria-Lebanon, 1915–1925
• Jacob Norris, Transforming the Holy Land: The Ideology of Development and the British Mandate in Palestine
• Seth Anziska, Autonomy as State Prevention: The Palestinian Question after Camp David, 1979–1982
• Tareq G. Baconi, Politicizing Resistance: The Transformative Impact of the Second Intifada on Hamas’s Resistance Strategy, 2000–2006
• Nida Alahmad, Illuminating a State: State-Building and Electricity in Occupied Iraq
• Artemy M. Kalinovsky & Antonio Giustozzi, The Professional Middle Class in Afghanistan: From Pivot of Development to Political Marginality
• A. Dirk Moses, Empire, Resistance, and Security: International Law and the Transformative Occupation of Palestine

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 8, no. 1, Spring 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Patrick Weil, Can a Citizen Be Sovereign?
• Mark Goodale, UNESCO and the United Nations Rights of Man Declaration: History, Historiography, Ideology
• Alden Young, African Bureaucrats and the Exhaustion of the Developmental State: Lessons from the Pages of the Sudanese Economist
• Erik Ropers, Debating History and Memory: Examining the Controversy Surrounding Iris Chang’s The Rape of Nanking
• Photo Essay
• Jean-Philippe Dedieu, Working with the Frames of War
• A Lens on Mohamedou Slahi at Guantánamo: A Conversation
• Debi Cornwall, Gitmo at Home, Gitmo at Play
• Dossier on Gunnar Myrdal
• Maribel Morey & Jamie Martin, Introduction
• Nils Gilman, The Myrdals’ Eugenicist Roots
• Lauri Tähtinen, Will Myrdal’s America Show Up?
• Maribel Morey, Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma (1944) as a Swedish Text: A Further Analysis
• Jamie Martin, Gunnar Myrdal and the Failed Promises of the Postwar International Economic Settlement
• Samuel Moyn, Welfare World
• Isaac Nakhimovsky, An International Dilemma: The Postwar Utopianism of Gunnar Myrdal’s Beyond the Welfare State
• Benjamin Siegel, Asian Drama Revisited
• Simon Reid-Henry, From Welfare World to Global Poverty

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 7, no. 3, Winter 2016) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Dan Edelstein, Is There a “Modern” Natural Law Theory?: Notes on the History of Human Rights
• Christopher N. Warren, Big Leagues: Specters of Milton and Republican International Justice between Shakespeare and Marx
• Dossier on Humanitarianism in Refugee Camps
• Maja Janmyr & Are J. Knudsen, Introduction: Hybrid Spaces
• Kirsten McConnachie, Camps of Containment: A Genealogy of the Refugee Camp
• Maja Janmyr, Spaces of Legal Ambiguity: Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Power
• Bram J. Jansen, The Refugee Camp as Warscape: Violent Cosmologies, “Rebelization,” and Humanitarian Governance in Kakuma, Kenya
• Are J. Knudsen, Camp, Ghetto, Zinco, Slum: Lebanon’s Transitional Zones of Emplacement
• Michel Agier, Afterword: What Contemporary Camps Tell Us about the World to Come
• Photo Essay
• Nina Berman, Object Lessons
• Sharon Sliwinski, Evocative Objects: A Sexual Violence Primer
• Essay Reviews
• Priya Satia, Guarding The Guardians: Payoffs and Perils
• Alexander Livingston, Moralism and Its Discontents