When the Exception Is the Rule: School Shootings, Bare Life, and the Sovereign Self

Autor/in	Shapiro, Harvey
Titel	When the Exception Is the Rule: School Shootings, Bare Life, and the Sovereign Self
Quelle	In: Educational Theory, 65 (2015) 4, S.423-440 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-2004
DOI	10.1111/edth.12125
Schlagwörter	Violence; Weapons; School Safety; Criticism; Theories; Urban Areas; Suburbs; Community; Justice; Laws; Discourse Analysis; Self Concept + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gewalt; Weapon; Waffe; Kritik; Theory; Theorie; Urban area; Stadtregion; Einzugsbereich; Gerechtigkeit; Law; Recht; Diskursanalyse; Selbstkonzept
Abstract	Much discourse on school shootings tends to imply a binary separation between what is considered normal and exceptional, between an expected course of human events and sociohistorical aberrations. In this article Harvey Shapiro suggests the need for new directions in our responses: First, he shows how responses to school shootings tend to expropriate and (paradoxically) dismiss certain kinds of violence in order to articulate a vision of the self as sovereign, exerting power over bodily life, exercising a self-removal from community conversations, and thus claiming what Giorgio Agamben and others call the "sovereign exception." Second, he suggests how Agamben's development of Walter Benjamin's concept of "divine violence" can unmask prevailing states of exception and can inform education's efforts to challenge binaries of good and evil, urban and suburban, individual and community, justice and law, normal and exceptional, that confound our deliberations and long-term responses to mass shootings. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01