On Refugee Agency, Bio-Politics, and a New World
This short intervention starts by discussing Giorgio Agamben’s theoretical formulation of ‘bare life,’ popular in refugee studies. Thinking with the case study of Palestinian refugee camps, particularly in the West Bank, it argues that there are clear limitations to the discourse of and bare life....
Main Author: | Hashem Abushama |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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York University Libraries
2021-11-01
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Series: | Refuge |
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Online Access: | https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/40794 |
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