Agamben Giorgio

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• Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

  8 April 2005
  Who is entitled to differentiate between the citizen and the immigrant and what are the theoretical positions? Here Giorgio Agamben’s work on sovereignty is useful. Sovereignty is the mechanism through which nationalism and the separation of the citizen from the immigrant takes place. Agamben situates in time this differentiation of the citizen from the individual at the centre of the French revolution and the creation of the nation state.