International Relations and States of Exception
Margins, Peripheries, and Excluded Bodies
Critically but sympathetically interrogating Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben's analysis of the logic of sovereign power, this volume draws attention to the multiple zones of exclusion in and through which contemporary international politics constitutes itself. Beginning from the margins and peripheries of world politics, this book emphasises the colonial processes through which contemporary third world spaces of exception have been shaped and particular bodies made susceptible to the conditions of bare life. The authors contend that these bodies inhabit a variety of spaces or zones of indistinction that include political detainees, refuge…
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Weitere Autoren: Nair, Sheila (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-135-25181-9
- EAN: 9781135251819
- Produktnummer: 18425960
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'147 KB
Über den Autor
Shampa Biswas is Associate Professor of Politics and Director of Global Studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, U.S.A. Dr. Biswas has worked and published extensively in the areas of postcolonial international relations, critical security studies and the politics of development.Sheila Nair is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Northern Arizona University, USA. Dr. Nair co-edited the volume, Power, Postcolonialism and International Relations: Reading Race, Gender and Class (Routledge 2002). She has also written and published on postcolonial human rights and protest movements, nationalism, and Malaysian politics among other topics.
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