“State of Exception”: A Tool for Fighting Terrorism
This paper examines Giorgio Agamben’s work on the state of exception, a top-down approach in which the sovereign suspends the constitutional law and imposes decisions on subjects through exceptional mechanisms. The paper seeks to tease out the analytical merit of the concept in helping to interpret...
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Format: | Electronic Book |
Language: | English |
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2017
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In: | Year: 2017 |
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