Agamben and Colonialism

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Edinburgh University Press (2012)
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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.

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Introduction: Agamben and Colonialism.  (pages 1-14)Simone Bignall & Marcelo Svirsky
1. Imperialism, Exceptionalism and the Contemporary World.  (pages 17-31)Yehouda Shenhav
2. The Management of Anomie: The State of Exception in Postcommunist Russia.  (pages 32-51)Sergei Prozorov
3. The Cultural Politics of Exception.  (pages 52-74)Marcelo Svirsky
4. Indigenising Agamben: Rethinking Sovereignty in Light of the ‘Peculiar’ Status of Native Peoples.  (pages 77-109)Mark Rifkin
5. Reading Kenya’s Colonial State of Emergency after Agamben.  (pages 110-127)Stephen Morton
6. Colonial Sovereignty, Forms of Life and Liminal Beings in South Africa.  (pages 128-152)Stewart Motha
7. Encountering Bare Life in Italian Libya and Colonial Amnesia in Agamben.  (pages 155-177)David Atkinson
8. Abandoning Gaza.  (pages 178-203)Ariella Azoulay & Adi Ophir
9. Colonial Histories: Biopolitics and Shantytowns in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.  (pages 204-226)Silvia Grinberg
10. The Paradigm of Colonialism.  (pages 229-238)Leland de la Durantaye
11. ‘The work of men is not durable’: History, Haiti and the Rights of Man.  (pages 239-260)Jessica Whyte
12. Potential Postcoloniality: Sacred Life, Profanation and the Coming Community.  (pages 261-284)Simone Bignall

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