In the Name of Humanity

Ilana Feldman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at George Washington University. She is the author of Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917–67, also published by Duke University Press.Miriam Ticktin is Assistant Professor in Anthropology and in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School.

“Most of the chapters in In the Name of the Humanity raise more questionsthan answers, but this makes it an ideal book both for courses on humanrights and globalization and for scholars working on human rights, humanitarian interventions, and globalization more generally. The accounts are remarkably balanced, neither cheerleading for globalization under the name of humanity nor pushing a relentlessly bleak image of globalization as neoliberalism.” - Jonathan Simon, Political Theory “[E]ach chapter grapples informatively and engagingly with the central challenges of human existence…The scholarship and diversity of research in this book will make it a valuable resource for students. More experienced readers will enjoy its depth and appreciate the opportunity to sample such a range of thought provoking perspectives on this fascinating topic.” - Dominique Martin, The Australian Journal of Anthropology “In a complex world where competing groups claim to be speaking on behalf of incommensurate versions of ‘humanity,’ the authors represented in In the Name of Humanity ask not what humanity is but what are the epistemic, market, and governmental logics and environmental parsings that fashion humanity and the humans who will inhabit humanity in the twenty-first century.”-Elizabeth A. Povinelli, author of The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism “Like ‘nature,’ ‘humanity’ is a Protean concept that confers immense capacity on those able to act in its name. Exploring the term and its effects from three key vantage points-humanitarianism, medicine, and environment-the papers in this outstanding collection offer up a stream of provocative insights and challenging perspectives. In the Name of Humanity is sure to become an essential reference point for future discussions of the human, its outsides, and its negations.”-Hugh Raffles, author of Insectopedia

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: Government and Humanity / Ilana Feldman and Miriam Ticktin 1When Humanity Sits in Judgment: Crimes Against Humanity and the Conundrum of Race and Ethnicity at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / Richard Ashby Wilson 27Children, Humanity, and the Infantilization of Peace / Liisa Malkki 58Narrative, Humanity, and Patrimony in an Equatorial African Forest / Rebecca Hardin 86Inhumanitas: Political Speciation, Animality, Natality, Defacement / Allen Feldman 115"Medication is me now": Human Values and Political Life in the Wake of Global AIDS Treatment / Joao Biehl 151Environment, Community, Government / Arun Agrawal 190The Mortality Effect: Counting the Dead in the Cancer Trial / S. Lochlann Jain 218Inequality of Lives, Hierarchies of Humanity: Moral Commitments and Ethical Dilemmas of Humanitarianism / Didier Fassin 238The Politics of Experimentality / Adriana Petryna 256Stealth Nature: Biomimesis and the Weaponization of Life / Charles Zerner 290Bibliography 325Contributors 359Index 363