Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-205) and index.
Naked life -- Entrenched spaces -- The camp as discipline, control, and terror -- From refugee camps to gated communities -- From rape camps to the party zone -- From terror to the politics of security -- Sociology after the camp -- Ethics after the camp.
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"In this book we argue that ours is a society that increasingly resembles a Hopperland, a society in which exception and normality enter into a zone of indiscernibility. We live in an increasingly fragmented, 'splintering' society in which distinctions between culture and nature, biology and politics, law and transgression, mobility and immobility, reality and representation, immanence and transcendence, inside and outside ... tend to disappear in a 'zone of indistinction'. The camp, the prototypical zone of indistinction, is the hidden logic beneath this process." --introd.