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... ( 2019 ) brilliant account of the Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) governing oil production in Equatorial Guinea should also be considered a notable exception. Although Appel distinguishes PSAs from concessions based on their more “contractual” dimensions and the greater control host states exercise...

... official underestimates of US‐caused civilian harm in anti‐Islamic State operations, exemplifying journalism's ability to “speak truth to power.” Yet in questioning official death tallies, journalists failed to challenge the rationale offered for this death: an accidental exception or necessary excess...

... on death row in Texas, why should the state of exception be relevant? Agamben might wish to believe that capital pun- ishment marks the institutionalization of a state of exception, but that does not really make the case for its exceptionality one way or the other; in fact, Benjamin (1978: 286...

... that attach value to the lives and ways of living of some groups and not others. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 crisis refugees sovereignty state of exception temporality “This is violence. What they are doing to us here, now. This is violence.” Helen spoke these words during...

... becomes “the living law”) are not those of liberal political theory. See chapters 5 and 6 of Agamben's State of Exception (2007). 10. Agamben and Schmitt focus on the juridical underpinnings of a state of exception. Agamben shows little interest in the conditions that give birth to crisis. Nor...

... can be and was established through a range of other means. Empire resides in who claims the privilege to make exceptions within a world order of states. The imperial privilege is precisely the privilege to make excep­ tions. In contemporary international institutions, despite the operation...

... These are consequential claims — one dismisses U.S. exceptionalism, the second more importantly holds that discourses of exception- alism are part of the discursive apparatus of empires themselves. I extend Said’s insight: imperial states by definition...

... understood to be exceptionally punitive and foreclosed spaces, the outcome of the deployment of the heavily punitive carceral condition in the contemporary historical moment. From this counterintuitive location we ask, What might an exceptional prison such as this tell us about who and what is contained...

... conditio inhumana ever to appear on Earth was realized.”5 In the political-juridical structure of the camp, he adds, the state of exception ceases to be a temporal sus- 2. Foucault, Il faut défendre la société, 213–34. 3. On the state...

... Peter the Great (91) taught his army to be brave and victorious; and only by way of many revolutions have the greatest states attained their summit and tranquillity.- Were we then to compare our public with this initial effort, it would...

.... In other words, these militarized actions must be figured as exceptional enforcement by an occupying regime; Indigenous subjects must somehow compel this level of force, must render it inevitable. Indigenous subjects must be configured as enemies of the state. In this way, as Audra Simpson ( 2014 : 152...

... up into sectarian and civil warfare, leave behind permanent pockets of insurgency, turn children into mercenary soldiers, and thus, every- day lives become “states of exception.” The scale and intensity of violence keeps accelerating, and it has also become gratuitous. In a telling irony...

... journal- 1 I would like to except the article by Stephen Salisbury in the Phihdelphiu Inquirer on October 14, 1988, which was, in my opinion, clearly the best of its kind on the national level. Public Culture 91 Vd. 1, No. 2: Spring 1989 92...

...-known story of Greece’s con- centration camps and interrogates how a state of exception existed with no inter- national outcry, and within a system that had a working parliament. The position of Greece as a nation in an international system...

..., that of the American exception — or, if one likes, as seen from a broader perspective, the European exception. Put either way, we are faced with a strong, even if not uniform, pattern of decline in European societies and virtually nothing of the sort in the United States. How can this difference be explained...

... Culture 155 Vol. 5. No. 1: Fall 1992 156 and, thus, vulnerable to a lawsuit. Under current law, the determination of obscenity varies from state to state, even from locality to locality. Obscenity laws are already hope- lessly vague and do not provide adequate...

... to which the state was captive. As evidence of these claims, they juxtaposed the “mediocrity” of Indian education with the “excellence” of American education, while taking care to set the IITs apart as an exception to the Indian norm. As one 1978 alumnus put it, “In India, reservations benefit undeserving...

... people,” Thomas screamed at the cops, “go to Iraq! Why are you hurting US citizens?” Classically, the state is understood as a monopoly on violence, or the legitimate use of force over a given territory. In this sense, the state does not minimize force, and its agents — the police — do...

.... Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. ____. 2005. State of exception, translated by K. Attell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Agrama, Hussein. 2005. Law courts and fatwa councils in modern Egypt: An ethnography of Islamic legal practice. PhD dissertation, Johns Hopkins University...

...., Political Parties and and the Modern State , New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 53 -66. Fraser , Nancy . 1989. “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy.” In Craig Calhoun, ed., Habermas and the Public Sphere , Cambridge: MIT Press, 109...