Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World

In this book, Miriam Ticktin explores how a concept that consistently appears as a moral good actually ends up creating harm for so many. Ticktin shows how innocence structures political relationships, focusing on individual victims and saviors, while foreclosing forms of collective responsibility. Ultimately, she wants to understand what makes the discourse around innocence so powerful and compelling, while showing that alternative political forms already exist.