- Title
- Giorgio Agamben : sovereign power, bio-politics and the totalitarian tendencies within societies
- Creator
- Ottmann, Goetz; Brito, Iris
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/178779
- Identifier
- vital:15480
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351002042-19
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781351002035 (ISBN); 9781138545748 (ISBN)
- Abstract
- This chapter focuses on Giorgio Agamben’s work on power, sovereignty, bare life, and bio-politics. Agamben argues that the state of exception (where the state no longer orders forms of life, creating a kind of no-man’s-land where rules are made by those in charge) is the original political relation that continues to define the workings of the modern state. An example of this state of exception is the concentration camp, a place where human beings whose political rights are for some reason forfeited (e.g. ethnic or religious minorities, refugees, militant Islamists) are being stored and often destroyed. The structure of the camp, Agamben states, exists and endures in many other forms. He urges us that ‘it is this structure of the camp that we must learn to recognise in all its metamorphoses’. How Agamben’s work is relevant to social work and how his analysis is valuable in critical social work education and practice is explored in this chapter. © 2020 selection and editorial matter, Christine Morley, Phillip Ablett, Carolyn Noble, and Stephen Cowden.
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis
- Relation
- The Routledge Handbook of Critical Pedagogies for Social Work p. 223-232
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright @ 2020 selection and editorial matter, Christine Morley, Phillip Ablett, Carolyn Noble and Stephen Cowden; individual chapters, the contributors
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