“From Figure to Ground”

Weizman, Eyal; Manfredi, Zachary

doi:10.5250/quiparle.22.1.0167

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“…In contrast, humanitarianism's primary motive is claimed to be to decrease suffering (Weizman 2012). Weizman and Manfredi (2013) argue that this motivation privileges "saving lives," human rights, and mitigating violence. Private sector incursion into digital humanitarianism shifts imperatives from decreasing suffering to accumulating capital, constituting a new form of neoliberalized humanitarianism.…”

Section: Austerity and Innovationmentioning

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“Let the Private Sector Take Care of This”: The Philanthro-Capitalism of Digital Humanitarianism

Burns

2019

Digital Economies at Global Margins

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Burns "Let the Private Sector Take Care of This" vidually, here I argue that they are integral components of the same process, which will significantly influence how humanitarianism is conducted in the twenty-first century. 2 Following the historical arc of "disruptive" technologies, we can see that for more than a decade, technologists have been developing digital spatial technologies that they hope will "revolutionize" humanitarianism (Meier 2012). 3 Many claim these "liberation technologies," as they are often called (Meier 2015), can increase democratic decision making, citizen empowerment, and civic engagement, effectively dislodging humanitarianism from its established modus operandi. This trend seeks to accentuate more "voices" by crowdsourcing knowledge and recruiting labor in platforms like Open-StreetMap, Ushahidi, Tomnod, and the Standby Task Force, and by scraping social media resources like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. The evidence for digital humanitarianism's impact is mixed (Brandusescu, Sieber, and

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Section: Austerity and Innovationmentioning

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“Let the Private Sector Take Care of This”: The Philanthro-Capitalism of Digital Humanitarianism

Burns

2019

Digital Economies at Global Margins

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“…This single order is one in which ‘the moderation of violence is part of the logic of violence’, and where humanitarian practice effects a mitigation of the suffering caused by military force (Weizman, 2012: 3). Here, humanitarianism may unwittingly, or at least against its own ambitions, become a vehicle for the proliferation of constrained and managed violence, and prefers an optimized present over the search for justice through political process (Weizman and Manfredi, 2013: 170–171). In her analysis of humanitarian immigration policies in France, Miriam Ticktin (2011: 5) takes this argument further, to demonstrate how humanitarian care can be accompanied by violent measures that ‘ultimately work to reinforce an oppressive order’.…”

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“…It places the debate’s key arguments into conversation within one particular case: Azraq Camp in Jordan, which was opened in 2014 for Syrian refugees. Azraq here serves as an example to illuminate one instance of what Eyal Weizman has termed the ‘humanitarian present’, together with the security practices that shape that present (Weizman and Manfredi, 2013; Weizman, 2012). 1…”

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Humanitarian security in Jordan’s Azraq Camp

Hoffmann

2017

Security Dialogue

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Azraq, a new camp for Syrian refugees in the Jordanian desert, presents an unprecedented integration of humanitarian service delivery and harsh security measures. I argue that Azraq’s ‘innovative’ order can only be explained in reference to three security claims that international refugee aid answers to: the claim to secure Syrian refugees, the claim to secure the Jordanian state and the claim to secure aid workers. Implementing these claims entails contradictory practices, which should create dilemmas for humanitarian aid, yet in Azraq these practices merge with each other. This merging (or integration) is aided by the humanitarian sector’s eager embrace of hi-tech solutions, especially digital data management. The article contributes to the growing debate about how security is articulated in the humanitarian arena by placing this debate’s key findings into conversation within a richly researched study of Azraq’s ‘material assemblage’ (Hilhorst and Jansen, 2010; Meiches, 2015). Further, the article emphasizes the importance of the under-researched area of aid organizations’ own security management.

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“…This outlook is unsurprising given that the territorial nation‐state is the quintessential modern political entity, yet it occludes our view of the wide and innovative range of techniques planners and subaltern actors deploy in their struggle over power and sustaining life in the city. In spite of Weizman's () call to think about space in three dimensions, there still is very little engagement with the politics of verticality in urban studies. Hence, Graham and Hewitt () call for a “fully volumetric urbanism … which addresses the ways in which horizontal and vertical extensions, imaginaries, materialities and lived practices intersect and mutually construct each other within and between subterranean, surficial and supersurface domains.” The three pieces in this special issue bring the politics of verticality to the forefront, reading the city as a multi‐layered topography.…”

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Introduction to Special Section: The Un‐Exceptional Middle Eastern City

El-Kazaz

Mazur

2017

City & Society

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This special section of City and Society is dedicated to de-exceptionalizing the study of Middle Eastern cities. The introduction argues that the study of Middle Eastern cities has been constrained in its analytical and methodological focus by a genealogy shaped by a triad of regional exceptions-Islam, oil, and authoritarianism-and that the three pieces curated for this special section move beyond those constraints in important ways. Focusing on geographical places and time periods that have remained peripheral to the study of Middle Eastern cities, the three articles ethnographically historicize the planned and unplanned processes through which cities in the region transform to transcend a genealogy of exceptionalism and the constraints it has created. They highlight the global and local connections that shape these processes to offer new perspectives on the study of scale, verticality and sensoriums in the shaping of urban transformation around the globe. The section developed from a conference on Middle Eastern cities convened at Princeton University in May 2013.

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“From Figure to Ground”

Cited by 10 publications

References 3 publications

“Let the Private Sector Take Care of This”: The Philanthro-Capitalism of Digital Humanitarianism

“Let the Private Sector Take Care of This”: The Philanthro-Capitalism of Digital Humanitarianism

Humanitarian security in Jordan’s Azraq Camp

Introduction to Special Section: The Un‐Exceptional Middle Eastern City

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