Agamben and Colonialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19947201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marcelo Svirsky (0000-0001-9811-3887), Simone Bignall (0000-0001-8020-9418) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Agamben and Colonialism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9780748643950 |
| OpenAlex | W270002376 |
| Open Library | OL37153021M |
| ISBN | 9780748643950 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 51 |
| References cited | 13 |
12 new essays evaluating Agamben's work from a postcolonial perspective Svirsky and Bignall assemble leading figures to explore the rich philosophical linkages and the political concerns shared by Agamben and postcolonial theory. Agamben's theories of the 'state of exception' and 'bare life' are situated in critical relation to the existence of these phenomena in the colonial/postcolonial world. Key Features * Features an international set of expert contributors who approach postcolonial criticism from an interdisciplinary perspective * Deals with colonial and postcolonial issues in Russia, Israel and Palestine, Africa the Americas, Asia and Australia * Offers new insights on colonial exclusion, racism and postcolonial democracy * A timely intervention to debates in poststructuralist, postcolonial and postmodern studies for students of politics, critical theory and social political philosophy
Archaeology · Colonialism · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · History · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Critical theory · Philosophy · Political science · Postcolonialism
Rethinking the Haitian Turn – Beyond the Universality Paradigm and Its Enemies
The biopolitical war for life
Migration, Boundaries and Differentiated Citizenship
Militarised violence in the service of state-imposed emergencies over Palestine and Kenya
Russian-occupied Crimea and the state of exception
Exploring a European tradition of allyship with sovereign struggles against colonial violence
Towards a poetics of reconciliation
Introduction
Confronting Silence and Cover-Up of the Colonial Genocide in Libya
Reflecting on Decolonial Queer
H aunting N ational B oundaries
Indefinite Detention, Colonialism, and Settler Prerogative in the United States
A Plural Nomos
Fracturing the “Exception”
On Black Study and Political Theology
Making Headlines in a State of Emergency
From Post-colonial to Post-9/11
Beyond the Agamben paradigm
Biting the Hand that Feeds
Subaltern geopolitics
Ruins of Empire
Restorations of Empire in Africa
Race and surveillance in the settler colony
Palestine/Israel and State Criminality
‘The Common Camp’
Remnants of Muslims
Carl Schmitt's postcolonial imagination
Palestinian Lives Matter
Migrant encounters with neo-colonial masculinity
Jerusalem as a paradigm
Colonial refractions
Bare Nature and the Genocide–Ecocide Nexus—The Conditions of General Threat and the Hope of Cultural Adaptation
Postsecular Philosophy and Decolonization as a Political-Theological Struggle
For a Historical Grammar of Concepts
Inhabiting the Aporias of Empire
In Their Places
Sovereignty, Sympathy, and Indigeneity
From Exception to Empire
Afterword
Giorgio Agamben, J. G. Farrell’s The Singapore Grip , and the Colonial Dispositif
The Postcolonial Time That Remains
Nomadic capital and speculative tribes
Pluralism, peoplehood and political theology in international legal scholarship
Emergency powers, anti‐corruption, and policy failures during the Covid‐19 pandemic in Puerto Rico
Estados y espacio de excepción en una zona de la frontera del Caribe colombiano
Gendering (in)security
Shoe
The State of Exception and the Imperial Way of Life in the United States-Mexico Borderlands
Excluir para integrar. Excepción y construcción de estado en la historia de los territorios nacionales de Colombia, 1843-1940
State desertion and "out-of-procedure" asylum seekers in the Netherlands
État de siège
| Unique citing works | 51 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,64 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |