| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 202 pages .) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and index. |
| Summary |
Can human rights protect the stateless? Or are they permanently excluded from politics? This book reveals the paradoxes central to the politics of human rights by exploring questions of statelessness, exclusion, the violence of security and the visual representation of refugees and illegal migrants in the media. |
| Contents |
Title Page; Imprint; Contents; Preface; Note; 1 Human Rights and Statelessness Today; 2 Human Rights in History; 3 Agamben and the Rise of 'Bare Life'; 4 Language, the Human and Bare Life: from ungroundedness to inoperativity; 5 Nihilism or Politics? An Interrogation of Agamben; 6 Politics, Power and Violence in Agamben; 7 Agamben, the Image and the Human; 8 Living Human Rights; Bibliography; Index. |
| Access |
Owing to Legal Deposit regulations this resource may only be accessed from within National Library of Scotland. For more information contact enquiries@nls.uk. StEdNL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-
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Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- |
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Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- |
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Statelessness.
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Statelessness. |
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Stateless persons.
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Stateless persons. |
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Human rights -- Political aspects.
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Human rights -- Political aspects. |
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Human rights. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Human rights. |
| Added Author |
Newman, Saul, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 0748645721 9780748645725 |
| ISBN |
0748677720 (electronic book) |
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9780748677726 (electronic book) |
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9780748677740 |
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0748677747 |
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0748645721 |
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9780748645725 |
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