A world without innocence

Ticktin, Miriam

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“…At stake here is who can be imagined as worthy of humanitarian attention (Ticktin ) and the relationships between people so imagined and the institutional and interpersonal interactions that ensue. For Lindsay Smith (), a distinction between humanitarianism and human rights is crucial.…”

Section: Relationality Subjectivity and Mediationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Tamarkin

2018

American Anthropologist

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This essay reviews work produced in predominantly US cultural anthropology publications throughout 2017. It asks: What makes an anthropological inquiry timely, what sorts of relationalities command anthropological attention, and to what end? Noting our ongoing methodological commitment to long-term ethnography alongside increasingly important online forums for reaching broader publics and responding quickly to emerging issues, it expands the range of work surveyed to include some online-only short essays alongside the larger collection of traditionally published research articles. Characterized by empathic inquiry, frequently drawing on years of ethnographic and personal experience with the places, people, and other entities that we write about, and often attentive to histories at multiple scales, cultural anthropology of this moment, however published, grapples with dark times while it also offers ways of imagining other, better futures and ways of being in relation to others. Two thematic clusters organize this essay: the first considers temporality alongside mobility and sovereignty, and the second considers relationality alongside subjectivity and mediation. Together, all of these concerns-that are both of the moment and long standing-build a varied body of work that grapples with the interrelationalities that constitute power, place, and possibility. I argue that what makes an anthropological inquiry timely is the extent to which it is relationally informed and attuned to care for worlds that we inhabit and imagine, together. [year in review, sociocultural anthropology, temporality, mobility, sovereignty, relationality, subjectivity, mediation] RESUMEN Este ensayo revisa el trabajo producido en publicaciones de antropología cultural predominantemente estadounidenses durante 2017. Pregunta: ¿Qué hace la investigación antropológica oportuna, y qué tipos de relacionalidades comandan la atención antropológica, y con qué fin? Notando nuestro compromiso metodológico continuo con una etnografía de largo plazo junto a foros en línea cada vez más importantes para llegar a públicos más amplios y respondiendo rápidamente a cuestiones emergentes, expande el rango del trabajo evaluado para incluir algunos ensayos cortos sólo en línea junto a la mayor colección de artículos de investigación publicados tradicionalmente. Caracterizada por una investigación empática, frecuentemente extrayendo de años de experiencia etnográfica y personal con los lugares, la gente, y otras entidades sobre las que escribimos, y a menudo atentos a historias a escalas múltiples, la antropología cultural de este momento, independientemente de cómo sea publicada, lucha contra tiempos oscuros mientras ofrece maneras de imaginar otros, mejores futuros y formas de estar en relación con otros. Dos grupos temáticos organizan este ensayo: el primero considera temporalidad junto a movilidad y soberanía, y el segundo considera relacionalidad junto a subjetividad y mediación. Juntas, todas estas preocupaciones-que son tanto del momento como de larga d...

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Section: Relationality Subjectivity and Mediationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Tamarkin

2018

American Anthropologist

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“…Furthermore, focusing on refugee stories reproduces long‐standing patterns in both anthropological and humanitarian thinking grounded in fascination with a suffering, “innocent” Other (Ticktin ). The “suffering subject” has been a particularly powerful focus of recent anthropological work (Robbins ), particularly in research on migration (Holmes ).…”

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confidence: 95%

“…The production of sympathetic or “innocent” migrant/refugee Others in anthropological work is also dangerous. Innocence may simultaneously call up guilt, danger, and impurity: the dangerous, threatening, or undeserving Other hovering like a kind of specter above the figure of innocence (Ticktin ).…”

Section: The Call Of “The Refugee”mentioning

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The business of anthropology and the European refugee regime

Cabot

2019

American Ethnologist

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Metaphors of flooding and “flows” are often applied in the public sphere to the phenomena of displacement and migration, but there are also “waves” and “tides” of humanitarian actors, “voluntourists,” and researchers now focused on refugees. Humanitarian, security, and anthropological interventions in the European “refugee crisis” of 2015–16 often operate according to a shared logic of urgency and crisis. Key problems and pitfalls in current anthropological trends in the study of displacement on Europe's doorstep are linked to the business dimensions of anthropological work. The business of anthropology reinforces the European refugee regime, which makes border crossers into targets of policing, intervention, and study. [crisis, refugees, displacement, anthropology, Greece, Europe]

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“…Several NGOs, journalists, academics, and activists, including migrants themselves, made recurring legal and public appeals demanding that the state formally recognized migrants' children on two major grounds: first, the state must respect the human rights of children, especially as signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; second, not recognizing children, who 'have no other country to go to', runs contrary to the humanistic values of the Jewish nation that historically suffered extreme forms of rejection and exclusion at the hands of different states. Indeed, several scholars have recently highlighted the compassion that suffering children invoke in state and civil society actors who are charged with humanitarian assistance (Fassin, 2011;Ticktin, 2017) While these two grounds obviously significantly influenced the unprecedented decision to include non-Jewish migrants in the Jewish state, we must still ask ourselves why this was the case. After all, Israel has consistently ignored UN resolutions and violated numerous human rights conventions whenever they seemed to interfere with what Israel perceived to be its national responsibility.…”

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confidence: 99%

To deport or to ‘adopt’? The Israeli dilemma in dealing with children of non-Jewish undocumented migrants

Kalir

2020

Ethnography

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This article analyses the unprecedented decision taken by the Israeli state in 2005 to legalize the status of non-Jewish undocumented migrants’ children. In explaining how the plight of culturally assimilated non-Jewish children succeeded in penetrating the hermetic ethno-religious definition of citizenship in Israel, the article focuses on the subtle yet critical influence of kinship on modern state-making and the affective fashioning of national belonging. By insisting on treating culturally assimilated non-Jewish children as Others, Israel increasingly ran the risk of unveiling the feeble construction of the Jewish nation in terms of kinship as ‘one big family’. The Israeli media increasingly began to question the refusal of the state to recognize children who were evidently ‘Israelis in every way’. Such a development, as some Israeli politicians undoubtedly realized, could have potentially been more detrimental to the mythological foundations of the Jewish state than the ‘adoption’ of a few hundred non-Jewish children.

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A world without innocence

Cited by 154 publications

References 37 publications

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

The business of anthropology and the European refugee regime

To deport or to ‘adopt’? The Israeli dilemma in dealing with children of non-Jewish undocumented migrants

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