Agamben and Colonialism by Svirsky, Marcelo

Agamben and Colonialism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780748643936)

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Agamben and Colonialism by Svirsky, Marcelo

Agamben and Colonialism

$39.95
Agamben and Colonialism by Svirsky, Marcelo

Agamben and Colonialism

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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Svirsky and Bignall assemble leading figures to explore the rich philosophical linkages and the political concerns shared by Agamben and postcolonial theory. 12 essays situate Agamben's theories of the 'state of exception' and 'bare life' are in critical relation to the existence of these phenomena in the colonial/postcolonial world. Countries studied include: Russia, Israel and Palestine, Africa the Americas, Asia and Australia.

Author: Marcelo Svirsky
ISBN-10: 0748643931
ISBN-13: 9780748643936
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2012
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d
By Marcelo Svirsky
By Marcelo Svirsky
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Marcelo Svirsky is a Lecturer in International Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia

Simone Bignall is an adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of History and Philosophy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. She has published widely on issues concerning colonialism and postcolonialism. She is the author of Postcolonial Agency (2010) and the co-editor, with Paul Patton, of Deleuze and the Postcolonial (2010), both published by Edinburgh University Press.

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