Agamben and Colonialism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Av Marcelo Svirsky, Simone Bignall, University of Wollongong) Svirsky, Marcelo (Lecturer and Marie Curie Fellow, Sydney) Bignall, Simone (Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Technology

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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. • 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

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Utgivningsdatum2012-05-11
Mått156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt605 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Connections
Antal sidor304
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9780748643943

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Marcelo Svirsky is a Lecturer in International Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia Simone Bignall is an adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of History and Philosophy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. She has published widely on issues concerning colonialism and postcolonialism. She is the author of Postcolonial Agency (2010) and the co-editor, with Paul Patton, of Deleuze and the Postcolonial (2010), both published by Edinburgh University Press.

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Agamben and Colonialism, Simone Bignall and Marcelo Svirsky; I. Colonial States of Exception; Imperialism, Exceptionalism and the Contemporary World, Yehouda Shenhav; 1. The Management of Anomie: The State of Exception in Post-communist Russia, Sergei Prozorov; 2. The Cultural Politics of Exception, Marcelo Svirsky; II. Colonial Sovereignty; 4. Indigenising Agamben: Rethinking Sovereignty in Light of the 'Peculiar' Status of Native Peoples, Mark Rifkin; 5. Reading Kenya's Colonial State of Emergency after Agamben, Stephen Morton; 6. Colonial Sovereignty, Forms of Life and Liminal Beings in South Africa, Stewart Motha; III. Bare Life and Bio-Politics; 7. Encountering Bare Life in Italian Libya and Colonial Amnesia in Agamben, David Atkinson; 8. Abandoning Gaza, Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir; 9. Colonial Histories: Biopolitics and Shantytowns in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, Silvia Grinberg; IV. Method, History and Potentiality; 10. Metropolis and Colonisation, Leland de la Durantaye; 11. 'The Work of Men is Not Durable': History, Haiti and the Rights of Man, Jessica Whyte; 12. Potential Postcoloniality: Sacred Life, Profanation and the Coming Community, Simone Bignall; Notes on Contributors; Index.