The New Universalism: Refuges and Refugees between Global History and Voucher Humanitarianism. Co-Authored with A. Herscher. Grey Room Fall 2015. Issue 61. (The essay occasioned a round-table and responses also published in the issue in tandem with our summary).
….”That the citadel of Irbil, which historically functioned as a place of refuge, could be institutionalized as historic architecture only by cleansing it of contemporary refugees—perhaps the only contemporary interpretive community who regarded the citadel in accordance with its actual status in the “slaughterbench” of history—is more than a simple irony. The removal of refugees from the citadel was not only consistent with current understandings of global history and humanitarianism alike; it was in a certain sense made self-evidently necessary by the current logic of each and begins to point to an unexamined relation between them.”