Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: Agamben and Colonialism 1
5. I. Colonial States of Exception
6. 1. Imperialism, Exceptionalism and the Contemporary World 17
7. 2. The Management of Anomie: The State of Exception in Postcommunist Russia 32
8. 3. The Cultural Politics of Exception 52
9. II. Colonial Sovereignty
10. 4. Indigenising Agamben: Rethinking Sovereignty in Light of the ‘Peculiar’ Status of Native Peoples 77
11. 5. Reading Kenya’s Colonial State of Emergency after Agamben 110
12. 6. Colonial Sovereignty, Forms of Life and Liminal Beings in South Africa 128
13. III. Biopolitics and Bare Life
14. 7. Encountering Bare Life in Italian Libya and Colonial Amnesia in Agamben 155
15. 8. Abandoning Gaza 178
16. 9. Colonial Histories: Biopolitics and Shantytowns in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area 204
17. IV. Method, History, Potentiality
18. 10. The Paradigm of Colonialism 229
19. 11. ‘The work of men is not durable’: History, Haiti and the Rights of Man 239
20. 12. Potential Postcoloniality: Sacred Life, Profanation and the Coming Community 261
21. Notes on Contributors 285
22. Index 289