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By Bulent Diken,Carsten B. Laustsen

we are living in an ever-fragmenting society, within which differences among tradition and nature, biology and politics, legislations and transgression, mobility and immobility, truth and illustration, appear to be disappearing. This publication demonstrates the hidden good judgment underneath this procedure, that's additionally the good judgment of 'the camp'. Social concept has regularly interpreted the camp as an anomaly, as a great web site located at the margins of society, aiming to neutralize its 'failed electorate' and 'enemies'. even if, in modern society, 'the camp' has now develop into the rule of thumb and hence a brand new interrogation of its good judgment is necessary.

In this remarkable quantity, the authors discover the ambiguity of the camp, as representing either an outdated worry of enclosure and a brand new dream of belonging. They illustrate their arguments by way of drawing on modern websites of exemption - reminiscent of refugee camps, rape camps and favelas - in addition to websites of self-exemption together with gated groups, get together tourism and big name cultures.

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