The Politics of Secular Cultural Property in East Jerusalem: The Case of Birket Hamam Al-Batrak Adel Ruished, Lancaster University, UK 9.

Penal Portents, Penal Precedents and Spectacles of Unbearable Life Madonna Kalousian, Lancaster University, UK 8. Soverign Power in an Icy Climate: An Exploration of Violence, Environmental Challenges and Displacement in the Bekka Valley, Lebanon Ana Maria Kumarasamy, Lancaster University, UK 7. A Forced Marriage? Palestine and the State of Exception Sanaa Alsarghali, An-Najah National University, Palestine Chapter 6: States of Exception and Emergency in the Post Arab Uprisings Middle East Lucia Ardovini, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden 6. Giorgio Agamben’s slender but profound monograph on the state of exception is an intervention into a world that is becoming more and more exceptionalist. Here, distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to argue that this unusual extension of power, or state of exception, has. 1 While Agamben, as a citizen of an EU country, would likely have been exempted from these measures, he offered. to assume a visiting professorship at New York University. Institutionalizing Authoritarianism: Egypt, Al Sisi and the State of Exception Lucia Ardovini, Lancaster University, UK 5. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. In 2004, to protest certain new security measures applied to foreign nationals entering the United States, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben wrote in Le Monde that he would refuse to travel to the U.S. 3 In unravelling the debate between Carl Schmitt (generally considered. Claiming Agency in the Iraqi State of Exception Edith Szanto, University of Alabama, USA 4. State of Exception must thus be read as an attempt to discover, within the juridical mechanism, a distinct and empty space neither of law, nor of life, yet correlative to both, but strictly empty a space Agamben elsewhere claims as the basis of a para-ontology, 2 the exemplary ‘omnivalence of whatever being’. The Gulf Cooperation Council Police Imagined: The State of Exception and Transnational Policing Staci Strobl, University of Wisconsin-Platteville and Simon Mabon, L ancaster University, UK 3. States of Exception, Bare Life and Agamben in the Middle East Simon Mabon, Lancaster University, UK 2. There is a radical separation between potential and act as well as a mystical element or. List of Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction 1. In the state of exception, the force-of-law can exist without law.

State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben