Displaced transit-camp populations exemplify Agambenās bare life
Evidence
You talked about the closure [of] borders, Iām transfixed by people displaced from their homes, millions of people across the world who are living in transit camps or in UNICEF camps, who are the objects of humanitarian aid, who are being fed from the air. This is Agambenās bare life. This is a way in which the system has simply ground half of civilized life into nothingness, into just relying on its bare bones, operating on its flesh and its body and nothing more to give. People stowing away on the undercarriages of airplanes to get out of it, setting sail in leaky boats when they know they probably wonāt arrive, boats that are already leaking before they leave, but they must leave the horrors that they are now obliged to live in. ā Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1154
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Pins down Agambenās ābare lifeā as a concrete mechanismāhumanitarian objectification, life reduced to fleshāwhich is a load-bearing concept for the readerās biopolitics/necropolitics toolkit.
- XREF: Feeds directly into the readerās biopolitics/necropolitics module and will be carried into Islamophobia readings on refugee policy and humanitarian governmentality.