The culture of exception : sociology facing the camp

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Title:

The culture of exception : sociology facing the camp

Author:

Diken, Bülent.

ISBN:

9780415351232

9780415351225

Personal Author:

Diken, Bülent.

Publication Information:

Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Physical Description:

ix, 214 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

International library of sociology

Series Title:

International library of sociology

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Foreword / Zygmunt Bauman -- 1. Naked life -- 2. Entrenched spaces -- 3. The camp as discipline, control and terror -- 4. From refugee camps to gated communities -- 5. From rape wars to the party zone -- 6. From terror to the politics of security -- 7. Sociology after the camp -- 8. Ethics after the camp.

Subject Term:

Social distance.

Spatial behavior.

Human geography.

Camps -- Social aspects.

Added Author:

Laustsen, Carsten B. (Carsten Bagge), 1970-

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0653/2004026500-d.html
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip053/2004026500.html

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Summary

We live in an ever-fragmenting society, in which distinctions between culture and nature, biology and politics, law and transgression, mobility and immobility, reality and representation, seem to be disappearing. This book demonstrates the hidden logic beneath this process, which is also the logic of 'the camp'. Social theory has traditionally interpreted the camp as an anomaly, as an exceptional site situated on the margins of society, aiming to neutralize its 'failed citizens' and 'enemies'. However, in contemporary society, 'the camp' has now become the rule and consequently a new interrogation of its logic is necessary.

In this exceptional volume, the authors explore the paradox of the camp, as representing both an old fear of enclosure and a new dream of belonging. They illustrate their arguments by drawing on contemporary sites of exemption - such as refugee camps, rape camps and favelas - as well as sites of self-exemption including gated communities, party tourism and celebrity cultures.