The culture of exception assumes outsiders are identifiable and lawless regimes will spare insiders.

Evidence

Race thinking helps us to believe in the necessity of an all-powerful sovereign. If the threat can be contained in no other way than through this extraordinary power to suspend fundamental rights, it is surely because ‘they (those who threaten us)’ are not like ‘us’ and can only be stopped with brute force. As Angelina Snodgrass Godoy perceptively notes, two assumptions remain unchallenged in the culture of exception: we can tell them from us, and the suspensions of the rule of law will not affect those of us who are deemed to be within political community. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 77 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The exception, Ong shows, produces new kinds of citizens, principally those who are subjected to neoliberal considerations and those who are excluded from it. Cautioning us that it would be a mistake to understand citizenship as structured by a simple opposition between those within the state and those outside of it, Ong emphasizes that the exception be considered as a practice of governance. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 46 (#complicates, via linked claim)

If women’s bodies become the terrain on which Western states manage racial populations, do such measures ultimately create camps of abandoned people without the rights to have rights? Legal measures that limit citizenship rights, for example, the imposition of a higher age of consent for marriage if the intended spouse comes from outside the country (a measure discussed below as one intended to discourage forced marriages between young Muslim girls and men outside Europe), stigmatize certain populations and materially impose a secondary level of citizenship. Such initiatives, when they become part and parcel of an entire corpus of regulations restricting the rights of immigrants, contribute to what Balibar has termed a movement towards European Apartheid. Defending himself from the accusation that the use of a word such as ‘apartheid’ could only be ‘a useless provocation,’ Balibar argues that differential levels of citizenship create ‘insiders officially considered outsiders,’ a designation that paves the way for the kinds of security controls I discuss as part of the ‘war on terror.’ Few object to the suspension of rights for groups that are already stigmatized as outside the nation. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 254 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Insiders take a society’s basic structure for granted while outsiders judge it unfair. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 717; Exception culture rests on knowing who is inside and on suspensions never touching insiders — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 77; The exception operates as a governance practice rather than a simple inside-outsider binary. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 46 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Exception culture rests on knowing who is inside and on suspensions never touching insiders #corroborates (0.97) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 77
• The exception operates as a governance practice rather than a simple inside-outsider binary. #complicates (0.82) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 46
• Differential citizenship rights create legally stigmatized insiders treated as outsiders. #complicates (0.76) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 254