The Global Shelter Imaginary Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-i n- process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher The Global Shelter Imaginary: IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief Catherine Liu Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class Christopher Schaberg Grounded: Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic Marquis Bey The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Gender Cristina Beltrán Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy Hil Malatino Trans Care Sarah Juliet Lauro Kill the Overseer! The Gamification of Slave Resistance Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill, and Barbara Gurr Furious Feminisms: Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road Ian G. R. Shaw and Marv Waterstone Wageless Life: A Manifesto for a Future beyond Capitalism Claudia Milian LatinX Aaron Jaffe Spoiler Alert: A Critical Guide Don Ihde Medical Technics Jonathan Beecher Field Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation Jennifer Gabrys How to Do Things with Sensors Naa Oyo A. Kwate Burgers in Blackface: Anti-B lack Restaurants Then and Now Arne De Boever Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism Steve Mentz Break Up the Anthropocene John Protevi Edges of the State Matthew J. Wolf-M eyer Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Nicholas Tampio Learning versus the Common Core Kathryn Yusoff A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kenneth J. Saltman The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance Ginger Nolan The Neocolonialism of the Global Village Joanna Zylinska The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse Robert Rosenberger Callous Objects: Designs against the Homeless William E. Connolly Aspirational Fascism: The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism Chuck Rybak UW Struggle: When a State Attacks Its University Clare Birchall Shareveillance: The Dangers of Openly Sharing and Covertly Collecting Data la paperson A Third University Is Possible Kelly Oliver Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention P. David Marshall The Celebrity Persona Pandemic Davide Panagia Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics (Continued on page 66) The Global Shelter Imaginary IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London Copyright 2021 by Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, elec- tronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN 978-1 - 5179-1 222-2 (PB) ISBN 978-1 - 4529-6 602-1 (Ebook) ISBN 978-1 - 4529-6 655-7 (Manifold) Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401–2 520 http:// www .upress .umn .edu Available as a Manifold edition at manifold.umn.edu The University of Minnesota is an equal- opportunity educator and employer. In Memory of Daniel Moses Herscher and Raquel Helman Monk Contents Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Global Shelter Imaginary xiii 1. Better Shelter / Better Refugee 1 2. There Has Always Been a Better Shelter 23 3. “Protection Space” 37 Conclusion: Airbnb Refugee 51 Bibliography 57