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Introduction

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2017
This introduction traces back the conditions of emergence of the concept of bare life, from Foucault, though Agamben to more contemporary followers like De Boever and Lemke.
Jean-Michel Ganteau, Christine Reynier
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‘We lived upon jagged teeth in the dark’: The Housing Estate in Guy Gunaratne’s In Our Mad and Furious City and Nikesh Shukla’s Run, Riot

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2022
This article examines the representation of the council estate in Guy Gunaratne’s In Our Mad and Furious City (2018) and Nikesh Shukla’s Run, Riot (2018) using a geocritical lens.
Rebecca Blanchard
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Mazanet's 1693 "Report to the Viceroy:" The Role of Alterity, Bare Life, and Agency in the Attitude of a Spanish Friar against Texas Amerindians

The Coastal Review, 2018
This study evaluates Spanish missionary Damián Mazanet’s beliefs and attitudes about the Texas Indians expressed in a 1693 letter. In order to control the Amerindians, Mazanet represents them as beings with bare life, which gives him permission to ...
Pedro Cebollero
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The Construction of the Other: (Re)producing Bare Life

AM: Art + Media, 2017
This paper proposes a critical reading of the formation of the Other within capitalism and coloniality. Through an analysis of the master/slave relation, the master/slave dialectic and bare life/sovereignty, the research intends to prove that the ...
Sebastjan Leban
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Between Bare Life and Everyday Life: Spatializing Europe’s Migrant Camps

Architecture_MPS, 2017
The migrant and refugee camps that proliferated in Europe over recent years reflect extreme, if not bipolar, architectural conditions. While fenced carceral camps with prefabricated units were created top-down by state and municipal authorities ...
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The Secret Agency of Dispossession

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2017
What happens if the homo sacer kills before he can be killed? What if the dispossessed repossess what was taken from them? What if some agent declares a state of exception to the state of exception?
Stephen Ross
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Biopolitical Nomos and “Bare Life” in Arundhati Roy’s Novels

Crossroads, 2021
Biopolitics—the maneuvers and stratagems employed to regulate, manage and govern people—is one of the most contested theoretical paradigms, which deals with the relation between state politics and human lives. While Foucault links the biopolitical nomos
Khandakar Ashraful Islam
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‘The Barest of Lives: Looking at War from the Heart of Things in Harry Parker’s Anatomy of a Soldier (2016)’

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2017
At a time when the physical reality of bodies at war has become both omnipresent and increasingly mediated, Harry Parker’s debut novel Anatomy of a Soldier (Faber and Faber, 2016) chooses to displace the narrative logic of war and to reveal its organic ...
Catherine Bernard
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‘A compound fenced off from the rest of the world’: Motherhood as the Stripping of One’s Self in Rachel Cusk’s A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother.

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2017
Society and the media would have us believe that giving birth to a child and the first months of motherhood are the happiest moments in a woman’s life.
Alice Braun
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The law of bare life

Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 2021
2020 proved to be a remarkable year. Not the least remarkable was the realisation that, in a moment of perceived crisis, the instinctive response of the UK Government was to sweep away various so-called rights and liberties which might, in a calmer moment, have been presumed fundamental, and to rule by means of executive fiat.
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