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Title: | When the slaves go marching out: indignation, invisible bodies, and political theorys |
Authors: | Del Lucchese, F |
Keywords: | Violence;Conflict;Migrations;Affects;Resistance;Indignation |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Publisher: | Citizenship Studies |
Citation: | Citizenship Studies, 2014, 18 (5), pp. 549 - 561 |
Abstract: | In January 2010, hundreds of illegal migrants took to the streets of Rosarno in Italy for a violent protest against the acts of racism which they had routinely suffered. A collective subject, considered invisible, dared to revolt. These migrants are an anomaly in the social, legal, and political senses. Their revolt is an example of rebellions who constitute a litmus test for the discourse of citizenship; it reveals itself as a form of political subjectivity and highlights the corporeality of the conflict. Understanding the revolt also troubles the boundary between body discourses and traditional political theory. In this paper, I analyse the revolt through categories of contemporary political theory such as the ‘bare life’ of Giorgio Agamben, and the ‘disagreement’ of Jacques Rancière. I show how these categories only partially help to interpret the phenomenon of this uprising. However, the Spinozist concept of indignatio is a more useful intellectual tool to interpret and understand the phenomenon of the revolt of Rosarno. |
URI: | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13621025.2014.923706#.VJBNa3ZFDL8 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9533 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2014.923706 |
ISSN: | 1469-3593 |
Appears in Collections: | Brunel Law School Research Papers |
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