The camp form has become a permanent, legally authorized exclusion from political community.
Evidence
What the ‘war on terror’ has prompted, however, is an answer in the affirmative to Bauman’s question. The camp has become the rule, and our culture is now globally one of exception. … Camps, then, are not simply contemporary excesses born of the West’s current quest for security, but instead represent a more ominous, permanent arrangement of who is and is not a part of the human community. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 46
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s working claim that small acts of decorum toward corpses matter more than practical logic — both probe the boundaries of who counts as human/political.
- DEFINE: Establishes the central concept of the exception/camp as permanent political-community exclusion, not merely wartime excess.