M Ticktin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 12055 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M Ticktin |
| PRENOMES | M |
| SOBRENOME | Ticktin |
| ASSINATURA | TICKTIN M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | New School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0783-7706 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 634 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
On seeing crossings
On seeing crossings: Dover/Calais is a collaborative visual essay by nine people from Migration Mobilities Bristol and Multiple Mobilities Research Cluster, New York. The contributors have been working on questions relating to migration and mobility in a variety of contexts; we went together to Dover and Calais. Our collaboration thus emerges from the middle of ongoing conversations, freezing somewhat arbitrarily our multidirectional exchanges. E…
From vulnerability and innocence to collective life. Interview with Miriam Ticktin
In the interview, Miriam Ticktin discusses the expansion of the concept of vulnerability in migration governance and its problematic role in perpetuating humanitarianism and racial capitalism. She critiques the use of vulnerability and precarity as analytical categories, arguing that they often reinforce neoliberal practices rather than challenge structural inequalities. Ticktin advocates for alternative concepts like implication and commoning to…
Care as political revolution
This afterword discusses the three articles in the theme section "Affective regimes of care beyond humanitarian crisis," suggesting that they offer us important ethnographies that each pry open and reevaluate the nature of care, including its political potential. Building on how these alternative forms shift the meaning and practice of care, but focusing on the one structuring hierarchy of humanitarianism left intact-racism-I end by briefly discu…
"Building Borders and "No Borders
Since 2015 when migration across the Mediterranean was declared a "crisis" in Europe, the language of crisis and invasion has persisted, structuring conversations and political imaginations. This has led many to argue for the strict closure of borders and the deportation of migrants or "people on the move,"1 and to a deepening set of racisms within borders. But this "crisis" has also led to a less publicized, opposing struggle against borders, in…
Sanctuary Says
In 2018, the New School Working Group on Expanded Sanctuary collaboratively organized a series of workshops in New York to reflect on the question of sanctuary as a conceptual and practical starting point for cross-coalitional politics, including its tensions and risks. This short piece is an attempt to bring together the sentiments expressed in those workshops by activists, organizers, students and academics focusing on anti-racist, pro-migrant,…
Sexuality and borders in right wing times
We respond to prompts about the relationships between race, migration, and sexuality, as these intersecting differences have been forced into the same frame by the violent practices of right-wing regimes, and brought into relief by Covid19. Even as we have long known that sexual politics are a way to govern bodies, and to distribute uneven states of vulnerability, we are seeing new incarnations of government. What we aim to point out is how peopl…
The politics of care
Building a Feminist Commons in the Time of Covid-19
The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been structured around the idea that human connection and sociality are bad—they are dangerous. This essay suggests that, perhaps paradoxically, rather than isolating to stay healthy, people are forging new egalitarian forms of connection. I argue that COVID-19 has enhanced experiments in what I will call a “burgeoning feminist commons.” These foreground new, horizontal forms of sociality, and they…
From the human to the planetary
This is largely a theoretical, speculative essay that takes on the question of what 'care' looks like at a moment when climate change is increasingly taking center stage in public and political discussions. Starting with two new practices, namely, humanitarian care for nonhumans and One Health collaborations, I seek to determine what forms of political care can incorporate the well-being of future generations and future iterations of the earth. A…
Humanity as Concept and Method
Book Review| December 01 2017 Humanity as Concept and Method: Reconciling Critical Scholarship and Empathetic Methods Miriam Ticktin Miriam Ticktin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 608–613. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4279284 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Miriam Ticktin; Hu…
Invasive Others
Invasive Others:Toward a Contaminated World Miriam Ticktin (bio) contemporary media is full of imagery about invasive others. These Others take different forms, but perhaps the most recognizable are people, particularly those who are crossing borders, such as migrants and refugees. We regularly see images of people coming by the boatload from Syria or North Africa to land on European shores. Frontex, Europe's border patrol agency, sees these migr…
Invasive Pathogens
Invasive Pathogens?Rethinking Notions of Otherness Miriam Ticktin (bio) over the past 10 years, the global north has been increasingly bombarded by news of impending epidemics: SARS in 2003, avian flu in 2005, Ebola in 2013, and Zika in 2015. One thing that has helped to stoke the fear is that these are not simply viruses, but zoonoses—infectious diseases that are transmitted between species, or more specifically, from nonhuman animals or birds t…
A world without innocence
What exactly is innocence-why are we morally compelled by it? Classic figures of innocence-the child, the refugee, the trafficked victim, and the animal-have come to occupy our political imagination, often aided by the important role of humanitarianism in political life. My goal is to see how innocence, a key ethico-moral concept, has come to structure what we think of as politics in the contemporary Euro-American context-how it maps political po…
Sexual Violence as the Language of Border Control
When I first arrived in the Paris region in 1999 to do research on the struggle by undocumented immigrants (les sans papiers) for basic human rights, discussions of violence against women were remarkably absent from the public arena. Nongovernmental organizations and researchers had begun to broach the topic, but with little public visibility. However, this changed in late 2000, with a media explosion on the issue of les tournantes, or the gang r…
Thinking Beyond Humanitarian Borders
The language of humanitarianism has played a central role in political and media debates about undocumented migrants/refugees crossing into Europe and North America over the last few years. This essay argues that humanitarianism at the border is not good enough, often producing more harm than good; in particular, the article discusses the limits of central principles and practices of humanitarianism, including the search for innocence, the limits…
Panel 4
J'aimerais poser deux ou trois questions Emmanuel. Premirement, sur l'occupation
Los problemas de las fronteras humanitarias
Este texto plantea un análisis crítico del papel de los discursos y prácticas humanitaristas en nuestra concepción de la migración y en las políticas públicas desarrolladas en relación a la movilidad poblacional a través de las fronteras internacionales. Se parte de la premisa de que el humanitarismo, aunque fuera bien intencionado, puede tener efectos perniciosos sobre la situación que se vive en las fronteras, especialmente si acaba por sustitu…
La souffrance animale à distance
Cet article étudie le rôle des vétérinaires dans l'humanitaire à partir de deux types de pratique : la défense des animaux contre la cruauté et la surveillance des animaux touchés par les épidémies. En suivant l'extension de l'action humanitaire aux animaux comme nouvelles figures de victimes innocentes, nous cherchons à dépasser l'approche compassionnelle de l'humanitaire pour étudier les nouvelles formes scientifiques impliquant des non-humains…
Transnational Humanitarianism
This review traces anthropological studies of humanitarianism starting in the late 1980s, when humanitarianism began to take shape as a particular moral and political project through the formation of transnational nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). It follows both the evolving relationship of anthropologists to humanitarianism—initially as allies, then as critics, alternately embracing and challenging their conjoined humanist legacy—and the gr…
Cross-species craziness
Introduction
The question of whether human rights principles and practices can soften the deleterious effects of capitalism is a long-standing one. Anthropologist Jane Collier (2001) recounts how sociologist Émile Durkheim, growing up in the aftermath of the failed social revolutions of 1848, was concerned with the effects of capitalism on people, which led him to search for a moral discourse that would help mediate the harmful effects of capitalist market re…
Casualties of CareImmigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France
"This book explores the unintended consequences of compassion in the world of immigration politics. Miriam Ticktin focuses on France and its humanitarian immigration practices to argue that a politics based on care and protection can lead the state to view issues of immigration and asylum through a medical lens. Examining two 'regimes of care' - humanitarianism and the movement to stop violence against women - Ticktin asks what it means to permit…
Casualties of Care
This book explores the unintended consequences of compassion in the world of immigration politics. Miriam Ticktin focuses on France and its humanitarian immigration practices to argue that a politics based on care and protection can lead the state to view issues of immigration and asylum through a medical lens. Examining two "regimes of care"—humanitarianism and the movement to stop violence against women—Ticktin asks what it means to permit the …
The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism
This article examines the relationship between gender and the human through the lens of humanitarianism, whose key mission is to protect ‘humanity’. More specifically, it traces the recent history of the entry of gender-based violence into the medical humanitarian portfolio, quickly becoming the poster-child for humanitarian aid. The article argues that this unprecedented attention to gender-based violence, and its incorporation into the mandate …
How Biology Travels
This article explores how 'biology' - in the sense that bodies are increasingly understood in biological terms, from the molecular to the species level - is becoming more central in the recognition of political worth, and I argue that humanitarians are key players in producing this reality. I focus on the role biology plays in the politics of immigration. Combining ethnographic research with undocumented immigrants in Paris and asylum claimants i…
Where ethics and politics meet
I examine the role of humanitarianism and compassion in an emergent ethical configuration that makes illness a primary means by which undocumented immigrants obtain legal residency ("papers") in France. I argue that the sacred place of biological integrity in this ethical discourse leads immigrants to trade in biological integrity for political recognition. I demonstrate first how humanitarianism has been transformed into a form of politics, func…
A world without innocence
What exactly is innocence-why are we morally compelled by it? Classic figures of innocence-the child, the refugee, the trafficked victim, and the animal-have come to occupy our political imagination, often aided by the important role of humanitarianism in political life. My goal is to see how innocence, a key ethico-moral concept, has come to structure what we think of as politics in the contemporary Euro-American context-how it maps political po…
Thinking Beyond Humanitarian Borders
The language of humanitarianism has played a central role in political and media debates about undocumented migrants/refugees crossing into Europe and North America over the last few years. This essay argues that humanitarianism at the border is not good enough, often producing more harm than good; in particular, the article discusses the limits of central principles and practices of humanitarianism, including the search for innocence, the limits…
The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism
This article examines the relationship between gender and the human through the lens of humanitarianism, whose key mission is to protect ‘humanity’. More specifically, it traces the recent history of the entry of gender-based violence into the medical humanitarian portfolio, quickly becoming the poster-child for humanitarian aid. The article argues that this unprecedented attention to gender-based violence, and its incorporation into the mandate …
The politics of care
Policing and Humanitarianism in France
Taking the issue of immigration in France as the entry point to a discussion of law and order, this essay examines what this focus on law and order masks: the manner in which law, in certain critical realms, operates according to the logic of exception, rather than as a regime of normative justice based on general rules and rights. Joining the renewed debate on Carl Schmitt's political theories while rejecting his larger political project, I sugg…
How Biology Travels
This article explores how 'biology' - in the sense that bodies are increasingly understood in biological terms, from the molecular to the species level - is becoming more central in the recognition of political worth, and I argue that humanitarians are key players in producing this reality. I focus on the role biology plays in the politics of immigration. Combining ethnographic research with undocumented immigrants in Paris and asylum claimants i…
Building a Feminist Commons in the Time of Covid-19
The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been structured around the idea that human connection and sociality are bad—they are dangerous. This essay suggests that, perhaps paradoxically, rather than isolating to stay healthy, people are forging new egalitarian forms of connection. I argue that COVID-19 has enhanced experiments in what I will call a “burgeoning feminist commons.” These foreground new, horizontal forms of sociality, and they…
Invasive Others
Invasive Others:Toward a Contaminated World Miriam Ticktin (bio) contemporary media is full of imagery about invasive others. These Others take different forms, but perhaps the most recognizable are people, particularly those who are crossing borders, such as migrants and refugees. We regularly see images of people coming by the boatload from Syria or North Africa to land on European shores. Frontex, Europe's border patrol agency, sees these migr…
From the human to the planetary
This is largely a theoretical, speculative essay that takes on the question of what 'care' looks like at a moment when climate change is increasingly taking center stage in public and political discussions. Starting with two new practices, namely, humanitarian care for nonhumans and One Health collaborations, I seek to determine what forms of political care can incorporate the well-being of future generations and future iterations of the earth. A…
Selling Suffering in The Courtroom and Marketplace
Care as political revolution
This afterword discusses the three articles in the theme section "Affective regimes of care beyond humanitarian crisis," suggesting that they offer us important ethnographies that each pry open and reevaluate the nature of care, including its political potential. Building on how these alternative forms shift the meaning and practice of care, but focusing on the one structuring hierarchy of humanitarianism left intact-racism-I end by briefly discu…
Invasive Pathogens
Invasive Pathogens?Rethinking Notions of Otherness Miriam Ticktin (bio) over the past 10 years, the global north has been increasingly bombarded by news of impending epidemics: SARS in 2003, avian flu in 2005, Ebola in 2013, and Zika in 2015. One thing that has helped to stoke the fear is that these are not simply viruses, but zoonoses—infectious diseases that are transmitted between species, or more specifically, from nonhuman animals or birds t…
Sexual Violence as the Language of Border Control
When I first arrived in the Paris region in 1999 to do research on the struggle by undocumented immigrants (les sans papiers) for basic human rights, discussions of violence against women were remarkably absent from the public arena. Nongovernmental organizations and researchers had begun to broach the topic, but with little public visibility. However, this changed in late 2000, with a media explosion on the issue of les tournantes, or the gang r…
La souffrance animale à distance
Cet article étudie le rôle des vétérinaires dans l'humanitaire à partir de deux types de pratique : la défense des animaux contre la cruauté et la surveillance des animaux touchés par les épidémies. En suivant l'extension de l'action humanitaire aux animaux comme nouvelles figures de victimes innocentes, nous cherchons à dépasser l'approche compassionnelle de l'humanitaire pour étudier les nouvelles formes scientifiques impliquant des non-humains…
"Building Borders and "No Borders
Since 2015 when migration across the Mediterranean was declared a "crisis" in Europe, the language of crisis and invasion has persisted, structuring conversations and political imaginations. This has led many to argue for the strict closure of borders and the deportation of migrants or "people on the move,"1 and to a deepening set of racisms within borders. But this "crisis" has also led to a less publicized, opposing struggle against borders, in…
Humanity as Concept and Method
Book Review| December 01 2017 Humanity as Concept and Method: Reconciling Critical Scholarship and Empathetic Methods Miriam Ticktin Miriam Ticktin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 608–613. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4279284 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Miriam Ticktin; Hu…
Los problemas de las fronteras humanitarias
Este texto plantea un análisis crítico del papel de los discursos y prácticas humanitaristas en nuestra concepción de la migración y en las políticas públicas desarrolladas en relación a la movilidad poblacional a través de las fronteras internacionales. Se parte de la premisa de que el humanitarismo, aunque fuera bien intencionado, puede tener efectos perniciosos sobre la situación que se vive en las fronteras, especialmente si acaba por sustitu…
Contemporary British Asian women's writing
Selling Suffering in The Courtroom and Marketplace
Culture or inequality in sex-selective abortion
International audience
Policing and Humanitarianism in France
Taking the issue of immigration in France as the entry point to a discussion of law and order, this essay examines what this focus on law and order masks: the manner in which law, in certain critical realms, operates according to the logic of exception, rather than as a regime of normative justice based on general rules and rights. Joining the renewed debate on Carl Schmitt's political theories while rejecting his larger political project, I sugg…
Where ethics and politics meet
I examine the role of humanitarianism and compassion in an emergent ethical configuration that makes illness a primary means by which undocumented immigrants obtain legal residency ("papers") in France. I argue that the sacred place of biological integrity in this ethical discourse leads immigrants to trade in biological integrity for political recognition. I demonstrate first how humanitarianism has been transformed into a form of politics, func…
Sexual Violence as the Language of Border Control
When I first arrived in the Paris region in 1999 to do research on the struggle by undocumented immigrants (les sans papiers) for basic human rights, discussions of violence against women were remarkably absent from the public arena. Nongovernmental organizations and researchers had begun to broach the topic, but with little public visibility. However, this changed in late 2000, with a media explosion on the issue of les tournantes, or the gang r…
The Violence of Humanitarianism
Judging Mohammed
Casualties of CareImmigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France
"This book explores the unintended consequences of compassion in the world of immigration politics. Miriam Ticktin focuses on France and its humanitarian immigration practices to argue that a politics based on care and protection can lead the state to view issues of immigration and asylum through a medical lens. Examining two 'regimes of care' - humanitarianism and the movement to stop violence against women - Ticktin asks what it means to permit…
Casualties of Care
This book explores the unintended consequences of compassion in the world of immigration politics. Miriam Ticktin focuses on France and its humanitarian immigration practices to argue that a politics based on care and protection can lead the state to view issues of immigration and asylum through a medical lens. Examining two "regimes of care"—humanitarianism and the movement to stop violence against women—Ticktin asks what it means to permit the …
The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism
This article examines the relationship between gender and the human through the lens of humanitarianism, whose key mission is to protect ‘humanity’. More specifically, it traces the recent history of the entry of gender-based violence into the medical humanitarian portfolio, quickly becoming the poster-child for humanitarian aid. The article argues that this unprecedented attention to gender-based violence, and its incorporation into the mandate …
How Biology Travels
This article explores how 'biology' - in the sense that bodies are increasingly understood in biological terms, from the molecular to the species level - is becoming more central in the recognition of political worth, and I argue that humanitarians are key players in producing this reality. I focus on the role biology plays in the politics of immigration. Combining ethnographic research with undocumented immigrants in Paris and asylum claimants i…
Introduction
The question of whether human rights principles and practices can soften the deleterious effects of capitalism is a long-standing one. Anthropologist Jane Collier (2001) recounts how sociologist Émile Durkheim, growing up in the aftermath of the failed social revolutions of 1848, was concerned with the effects of capitalism on people, which led him to search for a moral discourse that would help mediate the harmful effects of capitalist market re…
Transnational Humanitarianism
This review traces anthropological studies of humanitarianism starting in the late 1980s, when humanitarianism began to take shape as a particular moral and political project through the formation of transnational nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). It follows both the evolving relationship of anthropologists to humanitarianism—initially as allies, then as critics, alternately embracing and challenging their conjoined humanist legacy—and the gr…
Cross-species craziness
Panel 4
J'aimerais poser deux ou trois questions Emmanuel. Premirement, sur l'occupation
Los problemas de las fronteras humanitarias
Este texto plantea un análisis crítico del papel de los discursos y prácticas humanitaristas en nuestra concepción de la migración y en las políticas públicas desarrolladas en relación a la movilidad poblacional a través de las fronteras internacionales. Se parte de la premisa de que el humanitarismo, aunque fuera bien intencionado, puede tener efectos perniciosos sobre la situación que se vive en las fronteras, especialmente si acaba por sustitu…
La souffrance animale à distance
Cet article étudie le rôle des vétérinaires dans l'humanitaire à partir de deux types de pratique : la défense des animaux contre la cruauté et la surveillance des animaux touchés par les épidémies. En suivant l'extension de l'action humanitaire aux animaux comme nouvelles figures de victimes innocentes, nous cherchons à dépasser l'approche compassionnelle de l'humanitaire pour étudier les nouvelles formes scientifiques impliquant des non-humains…
Sexual Violence as the Language of Border Control
When I first arrived in the Paris region in 1999 to do research on the struggle by undocumented immigrants (les sans papiers) for basic human rights, discussions of violence against women were remarkably absent from the public arena. Nongovernmental organizations and researchers had begun to broach the topic, but with little public visibility. However, this changed in late 2000, with a media explosion on the issue of les tournantes, or the gang r…
Thinking Beyond Humanitarian Borders
The language of humanitarianism has played a central role in political and media debates about undocumented migrants/refugees crossing into Europe and North America over the last few years. This essay argues that humanitarianism at the border is not good enough, often producing more harm than good; in particular, the article discusses the limits of central principles and practices of humanitarianism, including the search for innocence, the limits…
Humanity as Concept and Method
Book Review| December 01 2017 Humanity as Concept and Method: Reconciling Critical Scholarship and Empathetic Methods Miriam Ticktin Miriam Ticktin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 608–613. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4279284 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Miriam Ticktin; Hu…
Invasive Others
Invasive Others:Toward a Contaminated World Miriam Ticktin (bio) contemporary media is full of imagery about invasive others. These Others take different forms, but perhaps the most recognizable are people, particularly those who are crossing borders, such as migrants and refugees. We regularly see images of people coming by the boatload from Syria or North Africa to land on European shores. Frontex, Europe's border patrol agency, sees these migr…
Invasive Pathogens
Invasive Pathogens?Rethinking Notions of Otherness Miriam Ticktin (bio) over the past 10 years, the global north has been increasingly bombarded by news of impending epidemics: SARS in 2003, avian flu in 2005, Ebola in 2013, and Zika in 2015. One thing that has helped to stoke the fear is that these are not simply viruses, but zoonoses—infectious diseases that are transmitted between species, or more specifically, from nonhuman animals or birds t…
A world without innocence
What exactly is innocence-why are we morally compelled by it? Classic figures of innocence-the child, the refugee, the trafficked victim, and the animal-have come to occupy our political imagination, often aided by the important role of humanitarianism in political life. My goal is to see how innocence, a key ethico-moral concept, has come to structure what we think of as politics in the contemporary Euro-American context-how it maps political po…
From the human to the planetary
This is largely a theoretical, speculative essay that takes on the question of what 'care' looks like at a moment when climate change is increasingly taking center stage in public and political discussions. Starting with two new practices, namely, humanitarian care for nonhumans and One Health collaborations, I seek to determine what forms of political care can incorporate the well-being of future generations and future iterations of the earth. A…
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