Miriam Ticktin
Books:
Moral Emergency: Humanitarianism, Sexual Violence and the Politics of Immigration in France (out for review)
In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care, Co-Edited with Ilana Feldman, Forthcoming with Duke University Press, 2010
Journal Articles:
"The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism: Medicalizing Sexual Violence" Under review at Gender and History for a forum on "Gender and the Human" (with Nadia Abu el-Haj, Samera Esmeir and Rachel Sturman)
"How Biology Travels: A Humanitarian Trip" Under review for special issue in Body and Society on "Medical Migrations" (edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Chris Roebuck)
"Sexual Violence as the language of Border Control: Where French Feminist and Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Meet" Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society 33 (4) Summer, 2008: 863-889. Sexual Violence as the language of Border Control
"A Transnational Conversation on French Colonialism, Immigration, Violence and Sovereignty" With Paola Bacchetta and Ruth Marshall, in the Special Issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online, "Borders on Belonging: Gender and Immigration," Ed. Neferti Tadiar, 6 (3), Summer 2008. http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/immigration
"Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of Humanitarianism in France" American Ethnologist, 33 (1) Feb 2006: 33-49. 1.)Reprinted in Cultures of Fear: A Critical Reader, eds. Uli Linke and Danielle T. Smith, London: Pluto Press, 2009. 2.)Reprinted in Anthropology of Medicine: A Reader, eds. Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, Sarah Willen and Michael M.J. Fisher, Oxford: Blackwell, 2010. Where Ethics and Politics Meet
"Policing and Humanitarianism in France: Immigration and the Turn to Law as State of Exception" Interventions: International Journal of postcolonial studies 7 (3) 2005: 347-368. Policing and Humanitarianism in France
"Culture or Inequality in Sex Selective Abortion? A Reply to Sawitri Saharso" Ethnicities Jun 2005; 5:266-271. Culture or Inequality
"Selling Suffering in the Courtroom and Marketplace: An Analysis of The Autobiography of Kiranjit Ahluwalia" The Political and Legal Anthropology Review vol. 22, May 1999: 24-41. Selling Suffering
"Contemporary British Asian Women's Writing: Social Movement or Literary Tradition?" Women: A Cultural Review, Oxford University Press, 7 (1) Spring 1996: 66-77.
Book Chapters:
"From Redundancy to Recognition: Transnational Humanitarianism and the Production of Non-Moderns" In Forces of Compassion: Humanitarianism between Ethics and Politics, Eds. Erica Bornstein and Peter Redfield, SAR Press, forthcoming 2010
"Government and Humanity" With Ilana Feldman, In In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care, Eds. Feldman and Ticktin. Duke University Press, forthcoming 2010
"Medical Humanitarianism in and beyond France: Breaking Down or Patrolling Borders?" In Medicine at the Border: The History, Culture, and Politics of Global Health Ed. Alison Bashford, Palgrave 2006, pgs. 116-135. Medical Humanitarianism
Book Reviews:
Review of "Post-Colonial Cultures in France" Eds. Alec Hargreaves and Mark McKinney, Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, (1) 1998:150-52.
Working Papers:
"The Offshore Camps of the European Union: At the Border of Humanity" International Affairs at the New School, Working Paper 2009-02, Summer 2009. Offshore Camps