Bases, Militarization, and Spaces of Containment

Bases, Militarization, and Spaces of Containment

This working group seeks to think through specific techniques of knowledge production at work around US military bases/facilities, especially those that enable "spaces of containment" and "spaces of exception" to be maintained and sustained through the discourse of liberalism. The members of this group will read a list of texts and articles (see below) influenced by the works of Giorgio Agamben (1998) and those who have expanded on his concept of the "the camp" in order to extrapolate a better feminist model which addresses the inextricable links between race and...