ANTH 303 Anthropological Theory Fall 2017
Nov. 21: Working with and building theory: Homo sacer and beyond. READ: Pinelli, Barbara (2015) “After the landing  Moral control and surveillance in Italy’s asylum seeker camps.” Anthropology Today 31(2): 12-14.

- what is her question, and how does it compare to the questions posed by Narotzky, Durkheim, Latour, Goffman, Butler, etc.?
- Pinelli builds from the work of Giorgio Agamben, who builds from the work of Michel Foucault (especially biopolitics)
- what is “sovereign power”?
- what is “homo sacer”?
    - bare life/zoē versus bios
- state of exception
- how does Pinelli’s view go beyond the usual focus of those who apply Agamben to “camps”?
- how does her view provide a way to critique humanitarian aid?

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