ABSTRACT
This chapter sets out from several key premises. First, we agree with the observation of contemporary political theorists that under present conditions of militarized global capitalism and a ‘war on terror’ that knows no limits of time or space, what Agamben calls “states of exception” have increasingly become a “normal situation”—the everyday condition of life for millions of people across the globe (Agamben, 1998, p. 168; Papastergiadis, 2006; Hyland, 2001).
