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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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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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Homines Sacri of Eskibahçe: An Agambenian Reading of Louis de Bernières’ Birds without Wings

Litera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022
This study aims to provide a political criticism of the 2004 novel Birds without Wings by the English author Louis de Bernières, as the political background and overtly political subplot of the novel render it open to one.
Tuğçe Özdinç
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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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‘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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Kolbari and Its Identity Implications: Thematic Analysis of the Narrative of Kolbars in Baneh [PDF]

Strategic Research on Social Problems, 2023
IntroductionBaneh, located in Iranian Kurdistan, is a mountainous city situated near the border. Due to its distance from the city center and chronic underdevelopment, the border has emerged as a sustainable livelihood option for the region.
Omid Ghaderzadeh, Adill Rasooli
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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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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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‘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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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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