What do Holocaust survivors when they refer to cannibalism in their testimonies? This piece argues that not merely describe what have witnessed or heard of, but also ponder the boundaries of humanity. For centuries, Europeans made references various depictions for drawing line between “civilized” and “uncivilized.” In accordance with studies examine other historical contexts, I argue attempting...

This essay adopts a critical perspective of the idea humanizing refugee research. It argues that much social scientific research is intrinsically dehumanizing, as it simplifies and reduces human experience to categories models are amenable analysis. Attempts humanize may productively challenge unsettle powerful dominant hegemonic structures frame policy on forced migration. However, replace the...

In this intervention, I reflect on what it may mean to ‘humanize’ refugee research. The assumption often made is that ‘humanizing’ can arise through a concern with the particularity of individual, drawing from ‘the mass’ narrative singular and employing as means identify, , potentially understand others. Yet such move risks reliance creating relations empathy compassion elide political response...

In this age of racial inequality, dehumanization, social unrest, and calls for justice, society needs an educational space in schools that emphasizes awareness self diverse others acceptance practices. Expanding the higher education PETE curriculum to include movements activities place students as subjects their own first-person subjective experiences will lead cultivation mindfulness, motivati...

This paper argues that ethical responsibilities in refugee studies have focused on fieldwork, yet ethics ought to be applied the research problematic—the aims, questions, and concepts—as potentially implicated production of harm. Using an example from Tanzania, I argue policy has largely shaped language, categories investigated, interpretive frames research, this article advocates greater atten...

Abstract Objectification and dehumanization are topics often discussed within the social psychology feminist theory literature. Research on objectification has largely focused sexual of women’s bodies, whereas literature in context racial ethnic groups. Extant political science research only recently begun to engage with these concepts. In this manuscript, we build upon literatures apply insigh...

This paper highlights the embeddedness of xenophobia in institutions through a theoretical but empirically under-researched concept structural violence. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interview data with refugee women Gauteng, South Africa, we explore empirical utility violence shaping women’s everyday experiences three analytical themes: (a) unequal access to resources (b) constrained agency ...

Conquest of new frontiers in the universe requires colonization old ones. This article interrogates technoscience desires to explore outer space, and how time territory for discovering extraterrestrials habitable planets are organized through settler colonialism on our own. Examining modern astronomy at Mauna Kea, I argue technoscientific promise Thirty Meter Telescope hinges a temporality late...