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Agamben - (Im)potentiality of law and politics [PDF]
Placed between constituting and constituted power, homo sacer reveals the state of exception, which through sovereign ban, is kept both inside and outside the law. Agamben’s latest political and legal philosophy is based upon this concept.
Grujic, Vanja
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Impossible protest: noborders in Calais [PDF]
Since the closure of the Red Cross refugee reception centre in Sangatte, undocumented migrants in Calais hoping to cross the border to Britain have been forced to take refuge in a number of squatted migrant camps, locally known by all as ‘the jungles ...
Agamben G. +28 more
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As barreiras físicas ou morais aos migrantes escancaram as tensões envolvendo o fluxo migratório. Nesses espaços, questiona-se a existência de regimes de exceção em concomitância com a democracia.
Bianca Guimarães Silva +2 more
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
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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SMART CITY CONTROL ROOMS: The Rewiring of Local Governance Landscapes in India
Abstract Smart city control rooms are prominent components of the smart city discourse. They embody a long‐standing dream to visualize and manage multiple urban processes in real time through the collation of data flows. Previous research has produced important insights into the design, construction and operation of these facilities.
Devika Prakash +2 more
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Crisis is governance : sub-prime, the traumatic event, and bare life [PDF]
The article provides a critical analysis of the role of discourses of trauma and the traumatic event in constituting the ethico-political possibilities and limits of the subprime crisis.
Brassett, James, Vaughan-Williams, Nick
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The normality of the exception in democracy’s empire [PDF]
The motif is one of inversion. In its received mode, the exception – the exceptional decision suspending the normal legal order – generates both the sovereign and the law.
Fitzpatrick, Peter, Joyce, R.
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THE LEGITIMACY TRAP: Street Vending Heterogeneity and Selective Enforcement in San Francisco
Abstract Literature on street vending regulation often emphasizes the challenges in enforcing legal frameworks due to unclear laws or insufficient state capacity. However, it tends to overlook diversity among vendors themselves along crucial parameters such as spatial location, community ties and processes of goods procurement.
Irene Farah
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The coming community: The singular time of the subject [PDF]
We observe that the ideas of community and time in Agamben are strongly linked. At the moment of thinking the community we consider inevitable its interaction with the idea of time, in fact we see that such a correspondence is implicit in the thought of ...
Campero, María Belén
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Texto de Giorgio Agamben, com tradução de Vinícius Nicastro Honesko.
Giorgio Agamben
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