ABSTRACT
Introduction Whilst the work of the Italian philosopher giorgio Agamben has been applied within disciplines such as sociology, political science and even geography, it has yet to be fully embraced by disability studies. In Homo Sacer (1998), Agamben explores the nature of sovereign power and production of bare life, describing homo sacer as someone whose ‘entire existence is reduced to a bare life stripped of every right by virtue of the fact that anyone can kill him without committing homicide’ (Agamben 1998: 183).
