Essays about: "Giorgio Agamben"
Showing result 16 - 19 of 19 essays containing the words Giorgio Agamben.
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16. Management of Morphology: An investigation of the oikonomia of the Swedish horse breeding apparatus between 1874-1940
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studierAbstract : In this foucauldian inspired study I understand the kind of animal body that breeding practices produces based on Nicole Karafyllis concept biofact, which is defined by her as something or someone, whose growth is controlled and thus no longer self-determined. This leads to the question how, what Giorgio Agamben calls the oikonomia of apparatus governed the morphological changes that occurred in the body of the Swedish native horse population from the mid- nineteenth century and transformed them from many heterogeneous native horses into defined and fixed breed types. READ MORE
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17. Taiwan and Civil Liberties in the State of Exception
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the Taiwan government’s lifting Martial Law and passing the National Security Law signified a process of liberalization or the continuation of the state of exception. Its aim is to unpick the relationship between security policy development within the legal framework and human rights. READ MORE
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18. International Protection and the Sovereign Decision - A Geneology of the Responsibility to Protect
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : In the wake of the 2005 World Summit ratification of the responsibility to protect doctrine, the cases of Darfur and Syria have revealed the decisionary discretion of the collective international responsibility to protect inscribed within the doctrine. Through an engagement with the decisionist theory of Carl Schmitt and the work of Giorgio Agamben, this essay seeks to return the question of the decision regarding intervention under the responsibility to protect doctrine to its proper place as the functioning of power. READ MORE
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19. Performing spaces; Structures of Control and Claims of Rights in sites of ‘Irregularity’
University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : In dialogue with Critical perspectives in the field of Forced migration, this thesis aims to explore the spaces of „irregularity‟ regarding unaccompanied minors living non-status in the city of Malmö. With a theoretical departure in the ontological ideas of Hanna Arendt and Giorgio Agamben, the perspective of the Autonomy of Migration, and the concepts of „Acts of Citizenship‟, the thesis argues that these spaces are structured by multiple mechanisms of control, such as deportability, racism, poverty and precarity. READ MORE
