‘Illegal Aliens’ and the State, or: Bare Bodies vs the Zombie
‘Illegal Aliens’ and the State, or: Bare Bodies vs the Zombie
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“非法外星人”和国家，或者：赤裸的身体与僵尸
DOI：
10.1177/0268580909343494
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
W. Schinkel
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作者：
W. Schinkel
本文关注的是阿甘本继施密特之后所称的例外状态的两极：作为神圣人的非正规移民和主权国家。它以拘留“非法移民”的做法为起点，反思全球化辩论的两个核心特征：(1)空间相关性的下降；(2)民族国家相关性的下降。作者认为，这两种情况都可能发生，但它们正在被适应全球化条件的国家所抵制。通过将自己从福利国家转变为刑罚国家，国家寻求在全球化的世界中定义自己的新方式。这涉及到作为例外空间的“非法移民”拘留中心。作者使用了三个概念来捕捉看守所所占据的空间的本质，从而摆脱了传统的社会科学空间概念。从所讨论的空间更“正式”的特征到其完整的政治实质，它们是奥古斯特关于非场所的概念，福柯关于异托邦的概念和阿甘本关于营地的概念。作者认为，全球是通过地方联网的，“非法外国人”拘留中心的特殊空间是全球网络中的一个政治节点。将非正规移民作为祭品监禁，是通过与当地绝对相关的方式对全球做出回应的一部分：拘留中心，它既是约束地方的典范，也是常规社会空间“之外”的空间。
This article focuses on the opposite poles of what Agamben, following Schmitt, calls the state of exception: the irregular migrant as homo sacer and the sovereign state. It takes the practice of detaining ‘illegal immigrants’ as a starting point for reflection on two central features of debates about globalization: (1) the declining relevance of space and (2) the declining relevance of nation-states. The author argues that both may be taking place, but they are being countered by states adapting themselves to the condition of globalization. By turning itself from welfare state into penal state, the state seeks new ways of defining itself in a globalizing world. This involves the detention centre for ‘illegal immigrants’ as a space of exception. The author uses three notions in order to capture the nature of the space occupied by the detention centre, which escapes traditional social scientific notions of space. Ranging from the more ‘formal’ characteristics of the spaces in question to their full political substance, they are Augé’s notion of the non-place, Foucault’s notion of the heterotopia and Agamben’s notion of the camp. The author argues that the global is networked through localities, and that the exceptional space of the detention centre for ‘illegal aliens’ is a political node in the global network. The incarceration of irregular immigrants as homines sacri is part of a response to the global by means of an absolute relevance of the local: the detention centre, which is at once the model of binding locality and the site of a space ‘outside’ regular social space.
DOI：
10.1016/j.mce.2004.09.001
发表时间：
2004-10
期刊：
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
影响因子：
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作者：
Joan Waugh
通讯作者：
Joan Waugh