Exception - Exception

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• Pentagon Breaks with Bush on Detentions

  12 July 2006, by The Guardian
  In a memo yesterday, the Pentagon said that Article 3 of the Geneva Convention would apply to the Guantanamo detainees. The memo was the result of the US Supreme Court Decision which ruled that military tribunals for the Guantanamo detainees are illegal. However, the White House spokesperson, Tony Snow, indicated that any policy changes would need to be consistent with national security.

• Beyond and Before the Law at Guantanamo

  12 July 2006, by Cutler Schershow Scott , Michaelson Scott
  The article explores the status of the Guantanamo detainees and argues that the category of ‘unlawful combatant’ has always been foundational to the laws of war, being applied to ‘spies’ or other irregular participants in an armed conflict. Thus, the predicament of the Guantanamo detainees is ‘the very manifestation of the existing state system and its corollary values’. Critics of Guantanmo cannot rely on international law or in the exercise of sovereignty. The authors’ suggestion is that sovereignty itself must be torqued in a strange reversal, and made to work against itself. Sovereignty must be ‘expended without reserve in the name, not of law, but of justice, to the point where the territory and its boundary tremble’.

• An Interview with Giorgio Agamben

  12 July 2006, by Raulff Ulrich
  In this interview, Agamben discusses his latest book, The State of Exception, in relation to the latest developments in the ‘war on terror’. Methodologically, he makes a distinction between the camp as a ‘paradigm’ compared to other forms of sociological investigation. A ‘paradigm’, he argues, can be used to understand large historical structures. He also indicates that the ‘absence of law’ entailed by the state of exception is not the absence of governance. A double structure of the system, governance through law and governance through management, needs therefore to be considered.

• Guantanamo Limbo

  12 July 2006, by Butler Judith
  Judith Butler discusses the ‘exception’ of naming the detainees at Guantanamo as ‘illegal combatants’ rather than POWs from a different perspective than Giorgio Agamben’s. For Butler, the exception is an exception to the universality of human rights. At the same time, Butler acknowledges that the Geneva Conventions display their own exceptions to the universal. The Geneva Conventions only refer to state-centred conflict taking place in ‘already established and recognizable forms’. According to Butler, the Conventions also concede that there are ‘uncivilized people’ who create ‘unique situations’ that require unique measures.

• Abstracts of the Challenge Annual Conference: Illiberal practices of Liberal Regimes

  3 July 2006, by Challenge French Team
  Abstracts of the Challenge Annual Conference: Illiberal practices of Liberal Regimes, Paris, June 9th 2006

• Guantanamo : décision de la Cour Suprême (Hamdan vs Rumsfeld)

  3 July 2006, by Cour Suprême
  La Cour Suprême par 5 voix contre 3 a invalidé le 29 juin la création des tribunaux militaires d’exception destinés à juger les prisonniers de Guantanamo, inspirés des tribunaux d’exception mis en place après la 2° guerre mondiale. La Cour se fonde sur le droit américain, notamment le Code de justice militaire, et surtout contre une loi votée en 2005 par le Congrès interdisant aux prisonniers de contester leur détention avant le jugement ; elle se réfère aussi aux Conventions de Genève de 1949 relatives aux prisonniers de guerre que les Etats-Unis refusaient d’appliquer aux prisonniers de Guantanamo.

• Immigration and Criminal Law in the European Union: The Legal Measures and Social Consequences of Criminal Law in Member States on Trafficking and Smuggling in Human Beings

  30 June 2006, by Guild Elspeth, Minderhoud Paul
  This is a study of the legal framework on criminal measures on trafficking and/or smuggling and facilitating illegal entry in six Member States: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK, and the European Union. This issue is at the nexus of migration and criminal law. The system of criminal law in the Member States is a central part of the balance of the powers of the authorities and the rights of the citizen. The way in which civil liberties of the individual are weighed in comparison with public protection duties by the authorities is in essence a constitutional issue. The treatment of foreigners, in particular as regards their entry onto the territory and residence is not part of the constitutional settlements, but a field governed by state discretion and exceptionalism.

• Forum on « desecuritisation and emancipation »

  27 June 2006, by Alker Hayward R, Aradau Claudia, Behnke Andreas, Taureck Rita
  The forum raises questions about the relation between security and politics, the meaning of securitisation/desecuritisation and their political implications. The role of security analysis and analytical tools is considered in tension with political approaches based in social struggles. Schmitt’s influence on our understandings of security and the relation to political communities is also explored.

• Released Detainees Refute US Guantanamo Suicide Cover Up

  19 June 2006, by Begg Moazzam
  Former Guantanamo detainees, including the 9 British nationals released from the camp, have poured scorn on allegations that the three deaths at Guantanamo were suicides and claim that they are almost certainly accidental killings caused by excessive force used by US guards there.

• PUNITIVE POPULISM. Reforms and counter-reforms undertaken in Spain on criminal, procedural-criminal law, penitentiary, police and jurisdictional areas over the latest decade (1995-2005)

  13 June 2006, by Observatorio del sistema Penal y los Derechos Humanos
  Punitive populism is a governance strategy everyday more common in western countries. This strategy although not original seems to be unavoidable for political classes who are convinced that social conflicts ( and consequently, also the political ones) would be regulated by a harder application of Penal System. Reforms and counter-reforms which have being carried out in Spain on criminal and procedural-criminal law, as also on penitentiary, police and jurisdictional areas over the last decade (1995-2005) represent a paradigmatic era of this governance strategy.

• EL POPULISMO PUNITIVO : Análisis de las reformas y contra-reformas del Sistema Penal en España (1995-2005)

  13 de junio de 2006, por Observatorio del sistema Penal y los Derechos Humanos
  Las estrategias punitivas de corte populista son cada vez más habituales en los estados occidentales. Aunque no se trata de estrategiaS completamente novedosas, han pasado a ser un recurso inevitable para la clase política, que parece estar convencida de que los conflictos sociales (y en consecuencia, también los políticos) pueden ser resueltos mediante aplicación del Sistema Penal. Las reformas y contra-reformas penales llevadas a cabo en España durante la última década (1995-2005) representan el paradigma de este tipo de estrategias de gobierno.

• The European Court of Justice has held today that the agreement between the Commission and the USA was unlawful

  31 May 2006, by Court of Justice of the European Communities
  Following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, the United States passed legislation in November 2001 providing that air carriers operating flights to or from the United States or across United States territory had to provide the United States customs authorities with electronic access to the data contained in their automated reservation and departure control systems, referred to as ’Passenger Name Records’ (hereinafter ’PNR data’). While acknowledging the legitimacy of the security interests at stake, the Commission informed the United States authorities, in June 2002, that those provisions could come into conflict with Community and Member State legislation on data protection and with certain provisions of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2299/89 of 24 July 1989 on a code of conduct for computerised reservation systems (OJ 1989 L 220, p. 1), as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 323/1999 of 8 February 1999 (OJ 1999 L 40, p. 1).

• «On Regulations against Incivilities»

  29 May 2006, by University of Barcelona
  A number of recent criminologies have given particular influence to the control of urban disturbances, in Europe and in all Western big cities. Barcelona is a particular case of it, trough a municipal bylaw which came into effect on last January. This by law is responsible to introduce exceptionalist practices as a way to react against incivilities as emergencies.

• In Times, in and as Global Conflict

  23 May 2006, by ephemera collective
  In this issue of ephemera we publish a range of papers that engage with theory and politics in the organisation of global conflicts. Across these works, time - the time of their objects, and the time of their objects’ having been thought as such - are rendered salient. Here, conflict - as itself a site of object and of subject - theory, episteme, practical life - is revealed, intimately, emergent as the organisation of these. To point to the global of conflict, then, harks as much to the schizoid and conflictual singularities of the present of historical thought thinking its own objects - its possibilities and its pasts - as it harks to singularities in the geographies and scalings of its present.

• Conference: Illiberal practices of liberal regimes?

  17 May 2006, by Challenge
  Organised in the scope of the Challenge Framework Programme, this conference will be the occasion, for the 23 European partners of the program, to present the state of their research. It will put together, within 8 different but complementary workshops, participants coming from different spheres (scholars, NGOs members, high level members of national as well as European institutions, security practitioners...). The conference aims at highlighting, from a transdisciplinary perspective, the contemporary transformation of the modern state so as to as the question of the illiberal practices of liberal regimes.

• Conference: Law, Politics and the Challenge of Exceptionalism post-9/11

  2 May 2006, by Aradau Claudia, Challenge
  The war in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, indefinite detention, extraordinary rendition, suspensions of human rights have all reactivated a discourse about the state of exception.

• The long way to Ceuta and Melilla

  11 April 2006, by Challenge
  Roissy, Lampedusa, Ceuta, Melilla, Campsfield - previously unknown localities on the map of Europe have become signposts of European politics towards unwelcome migrants. More than 200 camps of foreigners are scattered now all over Europe. Camps of foreigners have multiplied over the last decade to administer entry, detention and deportation of foreigners. Whatever their physical forms - open camps, closed camps, camps at airports, camps at physical borders, camps in prisons - these camps have three common characteristics

• Guantánamo : des vies brisées

  21 February 2006, by Amnesty International
  Alors que la détention illégale de «combattants ennemis» sur la base navale américaine de Guantánamo Bay, à Cuba, entre dans sa cinquième année, Amnesty International demande une nouvelle fois la fermeture du centre de détention et la remise en liberté de tous les détenus, à moins qu’ils ne soient jugés sur le territoire américain dans le plein respect des normes internationales d’équité et sans encourir la peine de mort. Quatre ans après les premiers transferts à Guantánamo, près de 500 hommes de quelque 35 nationalités sont toujours détenus illégalement sur la base navale. Les déclarations des détenus et de leurs avocats laissent à penser que beaucoup d’entre eux ont été victimes de torture et de mauvais traitements à Guantánamo ainsi que dans d’autres centres de détention américains. Le présent document expose le sort tragique des détenus et présente brièvement des éléments nouveaux à propos de la poursuite de la grève de la faim et des nouvelles tentatives de suicide.

• International Political Sociology : call for papers

  15 February 2006, by International Political Sociology
  The International Studies Association is pleased to announce the launch of IPS: International Political Sociology, a new interdisciplinary journal to be published beginning in 2007. Responding to the diversification of both scholarly interests and regional concerns in contemporary international studies, it will draw especially on traditions of historical, legal, economic and political sociology, as well as on the burgeoning literatures on socio-political theory.

• International Political Sociology : appel à communications

  15 February 2006, by International Political Sociology
  IPS: International Political Sociology va venir s’adjoindre dès janvier 2007 au groupe des quatre revues de l’Association des Etudes Internationales (International Studies Association) publiées par Blackwell. La création d’IPS vise à répondre à la diversification des apports, des sujets et des intérêts académiques au sein des études traitant du mondial. Elle encouragera tout particulièrement le dialogue entre les relations internationales et les traditions de la sociologie historique et politique ainsi que de la théorie politique.

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