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Agamben and Colonialism
About this book
This collection of essays evaluates 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Agamben and Colonialism
- I. Colonial States of Exception
- 1 Imperialism, Exceptionalism and the Contemporary World
- 2 The Management of Anomie: The State of Exception in Postcommunist Russia
- 3 The Cultural Politics of Exception
- II. Colonial Sovereignty
- 4 Indigenising Agamben: Rethinking Sovereignty in Light of the ‘Peculiar’ Status of Native Peoples
- 5 Reading Kenya’s Colonial State of Emergency after Agamben
- 6 Colonial Sovereignty, Forms of Life and Liminal Beings in South Africa
- III. Biopolitics and Bare Life
- 7 Encountering Bare Life in Italian Libya and Colonial Amnesia in Agamben
- 8 Abandoning Gaza
- 9 Colonial Histories: Biopolitics and Shantytowns in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area
- IV. Method, History, Potentiality
- 10 The Paradigm of Colonialism
- 11 ‘The work of men is not durable’: History, Haiti and the Rights of Man
- 12 Potential Postcoloniality: Sacred Life, Profanation and the Coming Community
- Notes on Contributors
- Index