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

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 7, no. 2, Summer 2016) is out. Contents include:

• Alexandre Lefebvre, Mary Wollstonecraft, Human Rights, and the Care of the Self
• Lorenz M. Lüthi, Non-Alignment, 1946–1965: Its Establishment and Struggle Against Afro-Asianism
• Stuart Schrader, To Secure the Global Great Society: Participation in Pacification
• Michal Givoni, Reluctant Cosmopolitanism: Perceptions Management and the Performance of Humanitarian Principles

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2016) is out. Contents include:

• Human rights and Humanitarianism on the African Continent
• Amal Hassan Fadlalla & Omolade Adunbi, Introduction
• Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Humanitarian Dispossession: Celebrity Activism and the Fragment-Nation of the Sudan
• Lisa Ann Richey, Alexandra Cosima Budabin, Celebritizing Conflict: How Ben Affleck Sells the Congo to Americans
• Robert Wyrod, When Rights Come Home: The Intimate Politics of Women's Rights in Urban Uganda
• Nadine Naber & Atef Said, The Cry for Human Rights: Violence, Transition, and the Egyptian Revolution
• Bilal Butt, Conservation, Neoliberalism, and Human Rights In Kenya's Arid Lands
• Yepoka Yeebo, Photo Essay: Suame Magazine
• Keith Hart, Reflections On Ghana's Informal Economy At Fifty Years
• Joseph Morgan Hodge, Writing The History of Development (Part 2: Longer, Deeper, Wider)

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 6, no. 3, Winter 2015) is out. Contents include:

• Stephen Humphreys, Conscience in the Datasphere
• Samuel Martinez, From Commoditizing to Commodifying Human Rights: Research on Forced Labor in Dominican Sugar Production
• Photo Essay: From in the Presence of the Holy See
• Barbara Harlow, What the Holy See Saw—And Didn't See
• Joseph Morgan Hodge, Writing the History of Development (Part 1: The First Wave)
• Mira L. Siegelberg, Neither Right Nor Left: Interwar Internationalism Between Justice and Order

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 6, no. 2, Summer 2015) is out. Contents include:

• Carolyn J. Dean, Atrocity Photographs, Dignity, and Human Vulnerability
• Jeremy Adelman, Michele Alacevich, Victoria de Grazia, Ira Katznelson, & Nadia Urbinati, Albert Hirschman and the Social Sciences: A Memorial Roundtable
• Gregory Mann, From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel: An Introduction
• Janet Roitman, Kenneth Harrow, & Gregory Mann, An Interview with Gregory Mann
• Katherine Chandler, A Bee with an Electronic Brain: Drone Flights in Cold War America
• Pierluigi Musarò, The Banality of Goodness: Humanitarianism Between the Ethics of Showing and the Ethics of Seeing
• Lorrin Thomas, When We Talk About Human Rights

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 6, no. 1, Spring 2015) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Toward a History of the New International Economic Order
• Resolutions Adopted on the Report of the AD HOC Committee of the Sixth Special Session
• Nils Gilman, The New International Economic Order: A Reintroduction
• Sanctifying National Sovereignty in the Name of Postcolonial Humanity
• Priya Lal, African Socialism and the Limits of Global Familyhood: Tanzania and the New International Economic Order in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Bret Benjamin, Bookend to Bandung: The New International Economic Order and the Antinomies of the Bandung Era
• Roland Burke, Competing for the Last Utopia?: The NIEO, Human Rights, and the World Conference for the International Women’s Year, Mexico City, June 1975
• "A Trade Union of the 'Developing' Nations"
• Christopher R. W. Dietrich, Mossadegh Madness: Oil and Sovereignty in the Anticolonial Community
• Giuliano Garavini, From Boumedienomics to Reaganomics: Algeria, OPEC, and the International Struggle for Economic Equality
• Daniel J. Whelan, “Under the Aegis of Man”: The Right to Development and the Origins of the New International Economic Order
• Johanna Bockman, Socialist Globalization against Capitalist Neocolonialism: The Economic Ideas behind the New International Economic Order
• Subaltern International Law
• Umut Özsu, “In the Interests of Mankind as a Whole”: Mohammed Bedjaoui’s New International Economic Order
• Antony Anghie, Legal Aspects of the New International Economic Order
• Jennifer Bair, Corporations at the United Nations: Echoes of the New International Economic Order?
• From Accommodation to Rejection
• Kevin O’Sullivan, The Search for Justice: NGOs in Britain and Ireland and the New International Economic Order, 1968–82
• Patrick Sharma, Between North and South: The World Bank and the New International Economic Order
• Daniel J. Sargent, North/South: The United States Responds to the New International Economic Order
• Victor McFarland, The New International Economic Order, Interdependence, and Globalization

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 5, no. 3, Winter 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Jessica Whyte, The Fortunes of Natural Man: Robinson Crusoe, Political Economy, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Johanna Siméant, Interpreting the Rise of International "Advocacy"
• Peter Slezkine, From Helsinki to Human Rights Watch: How an American Cold War Monitoring Group Became an International Human Rights Institution
• Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Shanghai as a City of Juxtapositions
• Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Interview with Greg Girard
• Greg Girard, Phantom Shanghai

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 5, no. 2, July 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Keith David Watenpaugh, Between Communal Survival and National Aspiration: Armenian Genocide Refugees, the League of Nations, and the Practices of Interwar Humanitarianism
• G. Daniel Cohen, Elusive Neutrality: Christian Humanitarianism and the Question of Palestine, 1948–1967
• Vanessa Ogle, State Rights Against Private Capital: The "New International Economic Order" and the Struggle Over Aid, Trade, and Foreign Investment, 1962–1981
• David Shneer, Ghostly Landscapes: Soviet Liberators Photograph the Holocaust
• The Editors, From Anti-Politics to Post-Neoliberalism: A Conversation with James Ferguson
• Bronwyn Leebaw, Justice, Charity, or Alibi? Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and "Humanity Law"
• Umut Özsu, International Legal Fields
• Bradley R. Simpson, "Democratic Development" in Neoliberal Drag