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The Culture of Exception Sociology Facing the Camp

Paperback • 2005 • English • 1. edition

The Culture of Exception Sociology Facing the Camp

By Bülent Diken, Carsten Bagge Laustsen

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About the book

We live in an ever-fragmenting society, in which distinctions between culture and nature, biology and politics, law and transgression, mobility and immobility, reality and representation, seem to be disappearing. This book demonstrates the hidden logic beneath this process, which is also the logic of 'the camp'. Social theory has traditionally interpreted the camp as an anomaly, as an exceptional site situated on the margins of society, aiming to neutralize its 'failed citizens' and 'enemies'. H...Show more

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ISBN

9780415351225

Publisher

Psychology Press

Published year

2005

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Culture of Exception Sociology Facing the Camp

Format

Paperback

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