CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Nicutar, Andreea |
|---|---|
| Title | Sovereign Exception. 'Multiculturalism's failure' betwen the Camp and the People |
| Summary | This research will present of the paradox of the simultaneous failure of multiculturalism in a number of countries with very different multicultural strategies. After a contextualization of this discourse, the argument explains this puzzle in a Foucauldian framework of war and politics. The first part will modify this relationship by considering what we define as the coexistence of two opposite dynamics of biopower: that of visibility of subjects and that of concomitant opacity of the population. The next step will move this initial tension more explicitly in the discussion of the war inside society and of the enemy by re-formulating Giorgio Agamben’s concepts of the sovereign exclusion and the homo sacer inside this war-within-the-civil-peace. In this dialogue between Agamben and Foucault a new path will be suggested to understand the mutually constitutive strategies of, first, the identification of the enemy within society in a security regime and, second, the embodiment of a People. Here, the notion of the ‘people’ allows a modification of Agamben’s problematic of the camp by re-formulating the terms in which citizenship is played out in the discourse of societal security. The third part will restate this conceptual framework into the inside/outside debate in IR and show how the sovereign decision over ‘bare life’ is increasingly displaced in a new realm of the ‘transnational’ illuminating the present stakes of multiculturalism as a fight over the sovereign decision over the terms of citizenship as that which keeps bare life from becoming the general rule. |
| Supervisor | Astrov Alexander |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/nicutar_andreea.pdf |
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