“Bare life” derives from Giorgio Agamben’s concept of homo sacer (1998): a permanent, yet invisible space of maximal political power. Here persons legally reduced to the status of mere life can be ...
16, No. 1, 2017 The disappearance of race: a critique of... The disappearance of race: a critique of the use of Agamben in border and migration scholarship This is the metadata section. Skip to ...