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Regulating Resistance: From Anti to Counter-Revolutionary Practice - and Back Again - in Bahrain
Partecipazione e Conflitto, 2021 On 14 February 2011 Bahrainis took to the streets demanding political reform as part of a broader wave of protests that swept across the Arab world. In the months that followed, the ruling Al-Khalifa family deployed mechanisms of sovereign power in an ...
Simon Mabon
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The Experience of Migration: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis
On_Culture, 2021 In media, political and lay representations of migrants it remains frequently the case that metaphors are systematically used in racist and demeaning manners, though also, occasionally, in positive ways empathizing with the plight of refugees, migrant ...
Thanos Zartaloudis
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Whatever Singularity in de Bernières’ Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Litera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022 This paper explores Louis de Bernières’ novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin from the perspective of Giorgio Agamben’s concept of “whatever singularity”, the main theme of his The Coming Community. Agamben’s work provides a clear distinction from homogenized
Yasemin Karaağaç
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The Logic of Survival and the Inheritances of Aby Warburg
Estudios de Teoría Literaria, 2022 Taking as starting point a review of David Freedberg's recent critical reading of Warburg's experience with the Pueblo Indians (in which an update of the old classicist "exorcism" is confirmed), the paper proposes to update the distribution of Warburg’s ...
Valentín Díaz
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Ideas y Valores, 2017 Para analizar la gubernamentalidad neoliberal, se asume como problema la caracterización de las formas contemporáneas de ejercicio del poder bajo una nueva modalidad de soberanía política localizada en el mercado.
Iván Torres-Apablaza
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The Dilemma of Democracy: Collusion and the State of Exception
Studies in Social Justice, 2011 In what sense might the authoritarian practices and suspension of legal norms as means to combat the supposed threat of “terrorism,” within and by contemporary western democratic states, be understood as a problem of and not for democracy?
Mark McGovern
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Historia i Polityka, 2021 The ideas of state of exception and sovereignty presented by Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben in the aftermath of post September 11 context generated a new discourse in the realms of public law and political philosophy on how law and its ...
Punsara Amarasinghe +1 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article investigates companionate processes of self‐making in a religious community of Catholic nuns in eastern Indonesia. I argue that the sociality of the convent establishes a unique context for understanding the effects of one's company on processes of self‐becoming.
Meghan Rose Donnelly
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Inscriptions, 2021 In early 2020, Agamben asked a number of important moral and political questions concerning the global response to coronavirus. The response was heated; sufficiently so to prompt the editors of Inscriptions to ask whether that response had not, “put our ...
Simon Smith
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