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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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Life and death of not so “bare” bubbles [PDF]

Soft Matter, 2016
In this paper, we investigate how the drainage and rupture of surfactant-stabilised bubbles floating at the surface of a liquid pool depend on the concentration of surface-active molecules in water. Drainage measurements at the apex of bubbles indicate that the flow profile is increasingly plug-like as the surfactant concentration is decreased from ...
Lorène Champougny, Matthieu Roché, Wiebke Drenckhan, Emmanuelle Rio   +3 more
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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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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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‘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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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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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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Reification and Redemption of Bare Life in Adorno and Agamben

, 2014
Miguel Vatter
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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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