On the , George R. And Myra T. Cooley Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Professor of Geography Daniel Bertrand Monk discusses a newly published work that focuses a critical eye on United Nations refugee housing efforts and the organization’s partnership with IKEA.
Professor Monk is an expert on critical geopolitics, the Israel/Palestine conflict, and critical theory. Monk is also the author of An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict, “Welcome to Crisis: Notes for a History of the Popular Histories of the Arab-Israeli War of June 1967,” and most recently he co-authored The Global Shelter Imaginary, Ikea Humanitarianism and the Rationalization of Rightless Relief with Andrew Herscher.
Monk earned his bachelor’s degree at Columbia College of Columbia University, his master’s from Columbia University, and his PhD from Princeton University.
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