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...Non-Native Questions<subtitle>Genealogical States and Colonial Bare Life</subtitle> This chapter focuses on the legal status of multiracial people in British Central Africa and how they challenged categories of native and non-native by fitting into neither. colonial law racial descent...

... Northern Europe Cobra (movement) Asger Jorn the creaturely bare life ...

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... black feminism bare life biopolitics critical ethnic studies black studies ...

... This essay contends that the concepts of bare life and biopolitics severely limit how we understand current uneven global power structures and foreclose the possibility of their abolition. Bare life and biopolitics discourse not only misconstrues the deep anchoring of race and racism...

... work of the critical philosopher Giorgio Agamben, whose influential notion of “bare life” invisibilizes the ingenious agency of abject subjects. The chapter looks at how migrant domestic workers re-create their own spaces of inclusion and “rights” within the working households and produce traces...

... of the confused aftermath of the war—of a “broken down” condition in which “limitations … are dissolved.” It is the Danish Asger Jorn who, above all others, rises to this challenge, writing, “We must portray ourselves as human beasts.” Northern Europe Cobra (movement) Asger Jorn the creaturely bare life ...

... This chapter focuses on refugee agency to explore how refugees find and create spaces for action, collaborate with activists to elude and challenge structures of control, and articulate an alternative politics of identity and self-determination beyond their identity as exemplars of “bare life...

... Bhopal human rights globalization This essay contends that the concepts of bare life and biopolitics severely limit how we understand current uneven global power structures and foreclose the possibility of their abolition. Bare life and biopolitics discourse not only misconstrues the deep...

... in the recent work of the critical philosopher Giorgio Agamben, whose influential notion of “bare life” invisibilizes the ingenious agency of abject subjects. The chapter looks at how migrant domestic workers re-create their own spaces of inclusion and “rights” within the working households and produce traces...

... Jorn the creaturely bare life This chapter takes the Slade School of Fine Art, in London, which accepted students regardless of race, gender, and religion from its inception in 1871, as a site of global microhistory in the former British Empire. Through an analysis that connects the histories...

... for action, collaborate with activists to elude and challenge structures of control, and articulate an alternative politics of identity and self-determination beyond their identity as exemplars of “bare life.” The chapter recounts the process of ethnogenesis through which Somali Bantu refugees in Dadaab...

... contemporaneous ethnic Mexican organizations, ANMA consciously asserted a nonwhite identity that reflected the larger political commitments of its leftist ideology. race Mexican Americans leftist nonwhite white black feminism bare life biopolitics critical ethnic studies black studies ...

... Apartheid South Africa's infrastructures distilled systemic and epistemic racism into their purest forms, weaving them into the fabric of everyday life. The opening chapter builds on insights by philosopher Charles Mills to argue that apartheid laid bare the profoundly technopolitical character...

... by a Katrina survivor. The author argues that participatory media extends the predatory cultural logic of disaster capitalism when it enlists disaster victims to supply the unmediated contact with imperiled life (“bare liveness”) that televised catastrophe performs but fails to deliver. The chapter concludes...