Becoming bare life: asylum, hospitality, and the politics of encampment
Becoming bare life: asylum, hospitality, and the politics of encampment
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DOI：
10.1068/d10307
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发表时间：
2009-08-01
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Darling, Jonathan
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作者：
Darling, Jonathan
本文探讨了当代营地在英国的政治与参考定位的寻求庇护者作为一个群体受到“同情的镇压”的生物政治逻辑。本文首先探讨了实用的介绍庇护寻求者作为一个例子阿甘本的人物的人sacer。借鉴最近的批评，英国政府的明显转向“故意的驱逐政策，我认为，通过这种行为的主权放弃寻求庇护者被降级到一个位置，完全依赖于他人的道德情感。然后，我继续考虑的方式，这种定位“法律之外”已被庇护寻求者和当地的活动家，使道德要求和要求后的关系性质的公民作为一个数字的潜在裸露的生活。最后，我认为，仅仅是这样一种“假设赤裸裸的生活”的伦理姿态是不够的，阿甘本建议作为未来政治的区分逻辑的彻底拒绝，除了无条件好客的不可调和的伦理之外，几乎没有提供政治上参与赤裸裸的生活的手段。与此相反，我建议有必要（重新）参与政治理论，这些理论将政治本身作为一种道德实践。在这里，我研究了英国参与联合国难民署的门户保护计划，作为一个有条件的，不完美的，好客的行为，一个接地的区别，但其中既有道德实践的风险和政治改变的可能性在其心脏的例子。
This paper examines the politics of contemporary encampment within the UK with reference to the positioning of asylum seekers as a group subjected to a biopolitical logic of 'compassionate repression'. The paper opens by examining the utility of presentations of the asylum seeker as an exemplar of Agamben's figure of the homo sacer. Drawing on recent critiques of the British government's apparent turn to a 'deliberate policy of destitution, I argue that through such acts of sovereign abandonment asylum seekers are relegated to a position reliant solely upon the ethical sensibilities of others. I then proceed to consider ways in which such a positioning 'outside the law' has been employed by asylum seekers and local campaigners to make ethical claims and demands upon the relational nature of the citizen as a figure of potential bare life. I then close by arguing that such an ethical gesture alone, of 'assuming bare life, is not enough and that the outright rejection of logics of distinction which Agamben suggests as a future politics offers little means to politically engage bare life beyond an irreconcilable ethic of the unconditionally hospitable. Opposed to this, I suggest the need to (re)engage with political theories which draw the political as always already an ethical practice in itself. Here, I examine the UK's involvement in the UNHCR Gateway Protection Programme, as an example of a conditional, and imperfect, act of hospitality, one grounded in distinction, yet one which holds both the risks of ethical practice and the possibility of political alteration at its heart.