Amal Hassan Fadlalla is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Women's Studies, and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan (2007).

Introduction: Violence Narratives and the Cultural Politics of Identity
1. Performing Humanity: Suffering and the Making of Global Citizens
2. Humanitarian Publics: Celebrities, Solidarities, and Students
3. Diaspora as Counter-Response: Citizenship Rights and the Suffering of Ghurba
4. Contested Borders of Inhumanity: Refuge and the Production and Circulation of Violence Narratives
5. Toward an Inclusive Humanist Future: Borders, Bodies, and Funerals