“We are the Outcome of Your Actions”: Philanthropy and the Discourse of the Beneficiary
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“We are the Outcome of Your Actions”: Philanthropy and the Discourse of the Beneficiary

Editors’ Note: The following post is adapted from a talk that Bruce Robbins gave at the University of Copenhagen in June 2017. It is based on his recently published book, The Beneficiary. In the May 17, 2016 London Review of Books, journalist Ben Ehrenreich interviewed a 31-year-old Syrian man he encountered in the so-called “Jungle” … Continue reading