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A Farewell to Homo Sacer? Sovereign Power and Bare Life in Agamben's Coronavirus Commentary. [PDF]

open access: yesLaw Crit, 2023
The article addresses Giorgio Agamben’s critical commentary on the global governance of the Covid-19 pandemic as a paradigm of his political thought. While Agamben’s comments have been criticized as exaggerated and conspiratorial, they arise from the ...
Prozorov S.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Dementia and the Paradigm of the Camp: Thinking Beyond Giorgio Agamben's Concept of "Bare Life". [PDF]

open access: yesJ Bioeth Inq, 2019
This essay discusses the use of analogies drawn from the Holocaust in cultural representations and critical scholarship on dementia. The paper starts with a discussion of references to the death camp in cultural narratives about dementia, specifically ...
Burke L.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The geopolitics of bare life in 1970s Bangladesh

open access: yesThird World Quarterly, 2021
This article explores how the people and landscape of the Bay of Bengal came to be cast in terms of what Giorgio Agamben called ‘bare life’ – a people without the protection or mandate of sovereign law – in the international discourse of the early 1970s.
Naomi Hossain
exaly   +2 more sources

From bare life and necropolitics to a feminist care ethic: ageism in the COVID-19 pandemic and future directions [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
This perspective paper begins with discussing how COVID-19 magnified the pre-pandemic ‘bare life’ conditions which exposed older people’s lives to risks and indignities in the health and social care system.
Bethany Simmonds
doaj   +2 more sources

Sovereignty, bare life and the Arab uprisings [PDF]

open access: yesThird World Quarterly, 2017
Five years after people took to the streets in protest at political organisation across the Middle East, the consequences of these actions remain. As the protests gained traction, states began to fragment and regimes sought to retain power, whatever the cost.
Simon Mabon
openaire   +2 more sources

Potentiality, Sovereignty and Bare Life A Critical Reading of Giorgio Agamben [PDF]

open access: yesIdeas y Valores, 2014
This article presents a critical account of Agamben’s understanding of the logic of sovereignty and of the notion bare life, particularly Agamben’s approach to the paradox of sovereignty and its relation to Aristotle’s metaphysical category of ...
German Eduardo Primera Villamizar
doaj   +7 more sources

Narrative of Obsession: Manipulated Identities, Labyrinthine Emotions in Iris Murdoch’s A Word Child

open access: yesCritical Literary Studies, 2023
The theoretical discussion of the present paper is particularly based on the insights of Giorgio Agamben contextualized in Iris Murdoch’s novel, A Word Child (1975), written in the transitional period of the seventies England.
Nazila Herischian   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Refugee agency through bare life? New forms of voice and strategies of imperceptibility at the European borders

open access: yesDeusto Journal of Human Rights, 2022
In the course of the comparatively high numbers of refugees arriving in Europe in 2015 and 2016, several practices of the European border regime became more restrictive.
Maria Ullrich
doaj   +1 more source

On Refugee Agency, Bio-Politics, and a New World

open access: yesRefuge, 2021
This short intervention starts by discussing Giorgio Agamben’s theoretical formulation of ‘bare life,’ popular in refugee studies. Thinking with the case study of Palestinian refugee camps, particularly in the West Bank, it argues that there are clear ...
Hashem Abushama
doaj   +1 more source

Teori Filsafat Politik Agamben dalam Karya Sastra: Bare Life dan Homo Sacer

open access: yesStilistika: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra, 2022
Agamben Theory of Political Philosophy in Literature Work: Bare Life and Homo Sacer ABSTRAKPenelitian ini menyajikan gagasan dan teori sosio-politik Agamben seputar kedaulatan negara dan hak asasi manusia, untuk memberikan pandangan dan perbandingan ...
Damay Rahmawati, Ecclisia Sulistyowati
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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