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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.
I. M. Ward
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From bare life and necropolitics to a feminist care ethic: ageism in the COVID-19 pandemic and future directions [PDF]
Frontiers in SociologyThis 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
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Potentiality, Sovereignty and Bare Life A Critical Reading of Giorgio Agamben [PDF]
Ideas 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
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Dementia and the Paradigm of the Camp: Thinking Beyond Giorgio Agamben's Concept of "Bare Life". [PDF]
J Bioeth Inq, 2019 Burke L.
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Experimental Norms: Power–Knowledge, Bare Life and Medical Trials
Law, Technology and Humans, 2020 Humans experimenting on other humans sits precisely at the junction of law, technology and the humanities, synthesising descriptive, normative and creative elements in relation to reality.
Edwin Bikundo
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Reducing Women to Bare Life: Sexual Violence in South Africa [PDF]
Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 2021 This article investigates rape through the lens of biopolitics, using Agamben’s notion of a state of exception and bare life. I will argue that there needs to be a closer look at the neglected sexual and gender dimensions of biopolitics in settler ...
Amanda Gouws
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Narrative of Obsession: Manipulated Identities, Labyrinthine Emotions in Iris Murdoch’s A Word Child
Critical 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
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Deusto 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
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Economics as Religion and Christianity as oikonomia: Giorgio Agamben and the Homo Sacer
Religions, 2023 Among the contemporary thinkers who try to think of economics not just as having a non-empty intersection with religion but as being intrinsically religious, Giorgio Agamben occupies a singular place.
Gaël Giraud
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On Refugee Agency, Bio-Politics, and a New World
Refuge, 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
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