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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"State of Exception"”.
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Algorithmic Sovereignty: Machine Learning, Ground Truth, and the State of Exception
<p>This thesis examines the influence of algorithmic security technology on political theories of sovereignty and the state of exception. In computer science, an exception is a special circumstance that prevents a program from terminating normally. In political theory, the state of exception, as …
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Between the State and the ‘State of Exception’: Syrian Refugee Governance in Lebanon
The plight of refugees is often framed as an ‘emergency’ or as a moment of ‘crisis,’ rooted in temporariness and requiring unique systems of governance. Such a framing obscures practices and measures governing refugees, which are part and parcel of ‘normal’ and ‘ordinary’ politics. Challenging the …
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The European Union, state of exception and state transformation - Romania, Turkey and ethnic minority politics
… national sovereignty is the political expression of modern subjectivity and it dominates as such the contemporary discourse of human life, ethnic minorities included, in world politics. The analytical mechanism is grounded in social constructivist theorisations of discourse analysis. It evaluates …
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The use of armed drones by the United States against Al-Qaeda and its ‘associates’: a study of law and policy arising from a ‘State of exception’
The use of armed drones in undeclared warzones pose various challenges to well established rules of international law. The US drone policies rest on shaky legal grounds, are ambiguous in nature and have been justified by reinterpretation of international law. The UK government’s use of drone strike …
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The Threshold – a Place of the Hunchback. Violence and Transformation in works by Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte, and Kafka
This thesis examines the violence of normative power in contemporary biopolitics, and its expressions in the art and literature of Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte and Kafka. This violence may be invisible. In Foucault’s thought modern power functions as a normalising system that goes beyond the …
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The veil as exception and difference in French discourse and policy
… in France has come to symbolize the emergence of a state of exception in a mondern, industrialized, multicultural society. I posit that far from being a new conversation, that France's contemporary discussion on veiling represents a legacy of a much older, colonial conversation about the …
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Anti -Imperialism During the Philippine -American War: Protesting 'Criminal Aggression' and 'Benevolent Assimilation
"At the conclusion of the Spanish-American War of 1898, the United States purchased the Philippines from Spain in the Treaty of Paris. For over a decade beginning in early 1899, the United States waged a brutal war to suppress Filipinos seeking an end to colonial rule. My dissertation investigates …
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Emergency management and civil liberties in the post 9/11 era
… on natural and man made disasters outside of war, but a renewed focus on security since 2001 has resulted in the normalization of a “state of exception” where emergency powers undermine civil liberty protections. This thesis examines the topic from two perspectives. First, this paper will …
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El impacto del régimen de excepción en la presunción de inocencia de las Niñas Niños y Adolescentes, capturados en el departamento de San Salvador, 2022–2023
… se hará uso de: consulta documental, informes oficiales y de diferente organizaciones en defensa de los derechos humanos; consultando teoría y doctrinas, normativas nacionales e internacionales, definiciones de quienes son considerados menores de edad, decretos, leyes y documentación sobre los …
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Spatial Sovereignties: Autonomous Subjectivity and Political Resistance in Hamburg’s Rote Flora,1989-2017
This thesis examines the history and praxis of the left-radical Autonomous movement in West Germany, particularly in the case study of Hamburg’s Rote Flora: the symbolic centre of the European Autonomous ideology. Autonomie emerged in Germany after the ‘red decade’ of escalating terrorist violence …
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Exploring the Links between Camp governmentality and Agentic Responses of Rohingya Refugee in Bangladesh
The debate is that a particular form of governmentality is acknowledged in the different studies on refugee camps governance but those studies consider only the power of state actors and humanitarian organizations. This thesis found that consideration incomplete and partial view of camp operations …
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Gendered magic and Arthurian sovereignty
In presenting a mythical establishment of British and English nationhood that is one of the most popular traditions of the medieval period, the legends of King Arthur are particularly suited to a study of the role of the supernatural in the establishment and maintenance of sovereignty in medieval …
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The power of geography : universal discourse, global coloniality, and local sovereignty in the sustainable city apparatus
… has long been seen as the fundamental bedrock of sovereign governance. Do, then, new ‘locally’ generated city master plans orientated around ‘sustainability’ offer an effective vehicle for establishing and managing urban futures? The argument put forward in this thesis is no, not as some argue …
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Waiting, Part One of a Sarajevo Novel: The Figure of the Siege and the Refugee in a Selection of Twentieth-Century Siege-Exile Literature
The Painter of Bridges is a hybrid siege-exile novel about a landscape painter, Zora Buka, who loses her life’s work in a fire during the siege of Sarajevo. Part One, presented in the creative paper, is set in Sarajevo and depicts Zora’s experience of the first ten months of the siege. Part Two is …
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The liquid border: Subjectivity at the limits of the nation-state in southeast Europe
This is a study of power at the limits of the nation-state: an examination of the institution of the national border that focuses on the practices of the border people, from the perspective of cultural and performance theory. The site of this study is the trilateral border region of Prespa, where …
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Rule by exception : development, displacement and dissent In greater Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
… has continuously operated under a near-permanent state of constitutionally imposed emergencies. I look at the operation of one of the emergency regulations, the Essential Clearance of Squatters Regulations (ESCR, promulgated initially in 1969 and used until 2013) for the purposes of displacement …
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Multiple Purposes in Policy Pilots: Interrogating English Experiences with E-Scooters
… low-carbon, mobility, but the rapid spread of rental services has brought concerns over safety, sustainability, and use of public space. Occupying multiple regulatory ‘grey areas’ (Fearnley, 2020, p. 171), governments often had limited powers to intervene. Unusually, rental e-scooters could …
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Agamben, the exception and law
Giorgio Agamben‘s work has been at the forefront of modern debates surrounding sovereign exceptionalism and emergency powers. His theory of the state of exception and engagements with Michel Foucault appear to focus upon sovereign power‘s ability to remove legal protections from life with impunity, …
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Bodies as Risky Resources: The Japanese Identification Systems as Surveillance, Population Control and Colonial Violence in Occupied Northeast China
… investigates the emergence and transformation of national identification (ID) systems in modern Japan. I focus on colonial techniques of the ID systems in Northeast China under Japanese occupation in 1931-1945. Colonial ID techniques paid particular attention to identifying individuals and …
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