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Department of Politics Workshop Politics of Life and Death

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Dates:13 December 2017
Times:10:00 - 16:30
What is it:Workshop
Organiser:School of Social Sciences
Speaker:Sabrina Villenave,
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Department of Politics Workshop Politics of Life and Death

In recent years, a number of concepts have been developed in International Politics and beyond to think through the relationship between various forms of power (sovereignty, capital, and so on) and life: disposability, abandonment and expulsion to name only a few. The concepts of biopolitics and necropolitics in particular have become fundamental for understanding the contemporary political management of bodies and populations in a variety of contexts, from Guantanamo Bay to refugee camps, from (post)colonial contexts to areas of resource extraction. This event makes a space to reflect on this proliferation of concepts by staging a fundamental encounter between the politics of life and death. Its aim is to explore new interactions between sovereignty and modern technologies of power for the management of life and death that work through terror, ecological destruction and social disposability. It also hopes to interrogate new possibilities of governance that question the hegemonic relationship between subjectivity, power and death, patriarchal, imperial-colonial reasoning and violence so as to collectively consider new ways of living. Wednesday, 13th December 2017 Supported by BISA Contemporary Research in International Political Theory and BISA Post structural Politics Working Group 2.016/.017 Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building 10:00 – 16:15pm

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Sabrina Villenave,

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sabrina.villenave@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

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