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Conflict and crisis settings: promoting sexual and reproductive rights.(EDITORIAL)
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Reproductive Health Matters
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May 1, 2008
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"The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule ... Insofar as its inhabitants [are] stripped of every political status and wholly reduced to bare life, the camp [is] also the most absolute biopolitical space ever to have been realized, in which power confronts nothing but pure life, without any mediation." (1)
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In Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben's concept of the "state of exception", human beings are reduced to a condition of "bare life", banished from the dignities of citizenship and the protections of ordinary rights. While Agamben considers the Nazi concentration camps as the paradigm case, he warns that ...