TY  - BOOK
AU  - Svirsky,Marcelo
AU  - Atkinson,David
AU  - Azoulay,Ariella
AU  - Bignall,Simone
AU  - Durantaye,Leland de la
AU  - Grinberg,Silvia
AU  - Morton,Stephen
AU  - Motha,Stewart
AU  - Ophir,Adi
AU  - Prozorov,Sergei
AU  - Rifkin,Mark
AU  - Shenhav,Yehouda
AU  - Svirsky,Marcelo
AU  - Whyte,Jessica
TI  - Agamben and Colonialism
T2  - Critical Connections : CRCO
SN  - 9780748643943
U1  - 325.301 22
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; 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; restricted access
N2  - 12 new essays evaluating Agamben's work from a postcolonial perspectiveSvirsky 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 FeaturesFeatures an international set of expert contributors who approach postcolonial criticism from an interdisciplinary perspectiveDeals with colonial and postcolonial issues in Russia, Israel and Palestine, Africa the Americas, Asia and AustraliaOffers new insights on colonial exclusion, racism and postcolonial democracyA timely intervention to debates in poststructuralist, postcolonial and postmodern studies for students of politics, critical theory and social & political philosophy
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748643950
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748643950
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748643950/original
ER  -