State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() In England, we consider how emergency powers have been orientated around the protection of the Critical National Infrastructure and how this has produced localised ‘states of exception’ and, relatedly, pedagogical anomalies. We consider the relationship between laws related to disasters and emergencies, and case studies of the ways in which three countries (England, Germany and Japan) educate their populations for crisis and disaster. Second, it is a ‘liminal’ concept expressing the limits of law and where ‘law’ meets ‘not-law’. ![]() We focus on two main aspects of Agamben's work: first, the paradoxical nature of the state of exception, as both a transient and a permanent part of governance. In this paper, we innovatively apply Agamben's theory to the way in which countries prepare and educate the population for various types of emergencies. The term ‘state of exception’ has been used by Italian political theorist Giorgio Agamben to explain the ways in which emergencies, crises and disasters are used by governments to suspend legal processes. ![]()
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