Journal article
Beyond the boxes: refugee shelter and the humanitarian politics of life
- Abstract:
- Humanitarian agencies often reach for new designs and technologies in order to meet basic human needs. In the field of emergency shelter, one of the most widely publicized new designs is the Ikea refugee shelter: a flat‐packed, mass‐produced structure that can be shipped and constructed wherever it is required. This shelter aspires to be a universal solution, but since its formal launch in 2013, it has met with criticism and many challenges in the field. Deployed in political contexts in which people have very different expectations of basic shelter, the Ikea shelter demonstrates the limitations of universal standards, the inequities of humanitarianism, and the entwinement of biopolitics and the politics of life.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1111/amet.12833
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- Publisher:
- American Anthropology Association
- Journal:
- American Ethnologist More from this journal
- Volume:
- 46
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 509-521
- Publication date:
- 2019-09-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-07-10
- DOI:
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1548-1425
- ISSN:
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0094-0496
- Language:
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English
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pubs:1031508
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1031508
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2019-07-12
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- American Anthropological Association
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © 2019 by the American Anthropological Association
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from Wiley at: https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12833
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