States of Exception or Exceptional States
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States of Exception or Exceptional States

Law, Politics and Giorgio Agamben in the Middle East

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

States of Exception or Exceptional States

Law, Politics and Giorgio Agamben in the Middle East

About this book

This book explores the application of the work of the philosopher Giorgio Agamben to the post-Arab Uprisings in the Middle East, considering the evolution of regime-society relations that ultimately erupted in violence in the early months of 2011.
Agamben's ideas of the state of exception and bare life provide important intellectual tools to understand the nature of sovereignty and the regulation of life, which has largely been missing in the study of the region. Filling a theoretical and empirical gap by exploring the concept of the 'state of exception' via a multidisciplinary approach, Simon Mabon, Sanaa Alsarghali and contributors in the fields of political science, law and philosophy offer a unique set of perspectives analysing how politics and law combine to facilitate the misuse of executive powers.

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Table of contents

  1. Half Title
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Contributors
  7. Foreword
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1: States of exception, bare life and Agamben in the Middle East
  11. Chapter 2: The Gulf Cooperation Council Police imagined: The state of exception and transnational policing
  12. Chapter 3: Claiming agency in the Iraqi state of exception
  13. Chapter 4: Institutionalizing authoritarianism: Egypt, al Sisi and the state of exception
  14. Chapter 5: A forced marriage? Palestine and the state of exception
  15. Chapter 6: Sovereign power in an icy climate: An exploration of violence, environmental challenges and displacement in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon
  16. Chapter 7: Penal portents, penal precedents and spectacles of unbearable life
  17. Chapter 8: The politics of secular cultural property in East Jerusalem: The case of Birket Hamam al-Batrak
  18. Chapter 9: Biopolitics, destituent resistance and power-sharing in post-war Lebanon
  19. Concluding observations
  20. Index