Collection of essays that consider how humanity--as a social, ethical, and political category--is produced through particular governing techniques and in turn gives rise to new forms of government.

Ilana Feldman and Miriam Ticktin, eds.

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