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Бежанският лагер и градът: дали лагерът действително е извън-редно пространство?
Ist Teil von
Kritika i khumanizŭm, 2013 (42), p.283-320
Ort / Verlag
Фондация за хуманитарни и социални изследвания - София
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This article engages the Agamben-Agier perspective which has become
dominant in the last few years but has received poor criticism. Both Giorgio
Agamben and Michel Agier at times defi ne the refugee camp in relation to
broader scenarios. While Agamben thinks about the camp to defi ne the modern
nation state and law, Agier often digresses from the camp with the city in mind.
While both works teach us a great deal about the nature of the camp, discussing
some of their limitations is essential even to fully develop their own potential.
This article aims at contrasting key elements of the Agamben-Agier perspective
to my own experience with Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Three
main questions structure this paper: Is a refugee camp indeed a space of exception?
Should we understand the refugee camps in their symbolic and practical
continuity or discontinuity to the urban space? Should we consider the camp as
having the same properties as the “city” in Agier’s sense