States of Exception and Their Targets: Racialized Groups, Activists, and the Civilian Population
Journal Article: States of Exception and Their Targets: Racialized Groups, Activists, and the Civilian Population
Journal: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Date of Publication: 2020
Author: Vanessa Codaccioni, Member of the research unit, University of Paris 8, Paris Center for Sociological and Political Research (CRESPPA) vanessa.codaccioni@univ-paris8.fr
How to Cite: Codaccioni, V. States of exception and their targets: Racialized groups, activists and the civilian population. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2020, 40 (2), pp.230-236. ⟨10.1215/1089201X-8524138⟩. ⟨hal-04223339⟩
Abstract: The article deals with the history of state exception in France since the Algerian War. From this point of view, what is happening in France falls into two overlapping genealogies of exception: a colonial genealogy of exceptionalist logics, in which Algeria plays a central part; and a more metropolitan genealogy of political repression that could be traced back to the monarchy. The author thus divides her remarks into three sections. First, she addresses the double genealogy of exception in France; second, the discriminatory character of the exception; and last, the normalization of exception.
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