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Organizing sovereign power: police and the performance of bare bodies
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In this article, the authors engage with the narratives of three sets of murders in the state of Gujarat and show that these murders in Gujarat followed a pattern, i.e., a pattern of bare lives.Abstract:
Drawing from Agamben’s theorization of sovereign power and bare lives, we engage with the narratives of three sets of murders in the state of Gujarat. These murders in Gujarat followed a pattern—th...read more
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Contesting the Iron Fist: Advocacy Networks and Police Violence in Democratic Argentina and Chile
TL;DR: Fuentes as mentioned in this paper argues that police violence can vary so widely from country to country or from one time period to another, and offers a more plausible theory of police abuse in Latin America.
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Dispossessing vulnerable consumers: Derealization, desubjectification, and violence
Rohit Varman,Devi Vijay +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a site in which a commercial complex including a shopping mall is to be constructed in Ejipura, Bangalore (India), by displacing the poor from their slums is examined.
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Organizational Wrongs, Moral Anger and the Temporality of Crisis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore questions of organizational ethics from a temporal perspective while navigating between contending moral positions regarding police encounters and argue that the very efficacy of democratic institutions will be eroded if encounters are normalized.
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The necropolitics of neoliberal state response to the Covid-19 pandemic in India
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw from the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic in India to outline that the neoliberal consolidation of the state is enabled by precariousness, violence, and inequality in overlapping planes.
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The Subject and Power
TL;DR: The ideas which I would like to discuss here represent neither a theory nor a methodology as mentioned in this paper, but rather a history of different modes by which, in our culture, human beings are made subjects.
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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the logic of sovereignty and the paradox of sovereignty in the form of the human sacer and the notion of potentiality and potentiality-and-law.
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The Subject and Power
TL;DR: The ideas which I would like to discuss here represent neither a theory nor a methodology as mentioned in this paper, but rather a history of different modes by which, in our culture, human beings are made subjects.