Agamben in the Ogaden: Violence and sovereignty in the Ethiopian-Somali frontier

Political Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 205-214

  Hagmann, Tobias ^a   Korf, Benedikt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Emergency powers; Ethiopia; Frontier; Giorgio Agamben; Sovereignty; State of exception

Indexed keywords

FRONTIER REGION; GENEALOGY; GOVERNMENT; PERIPHERAL REGION; POLITICAL HISTORY; POLITICAL POWER; SOVEREIGNTY; VIOLENCE;

ETHIOPIA; OGADEN;

EID: 84860834621     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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