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There have never been more refugees, across the world from Myanmar
to Syria, than at this moment. Many more millions of refugees are
likely to be displaced by the effects of climate change. Why has
politics failed to produce adequate responses to these challenges,
and not heeded the lessons of refugee crises of the past? Are human
rights and international law, or more radically, the case for 'open
borders', sufficient to address them? Nathan Bell argues for
nothing less than a new concept of the political: that societies
(liberal or not, in the mode of the sovereign state or some other
form) embrace an ethos of responsibility for others, where the
right to seek asylum becomes foundational for politics itself. Such
a proposal is at the antipodes of Schmitt's friend-enemy
distinction, such that hospitality and not hostility forms the
basis of political decision-making. This book comprises two halves:
the first establishes the theoretical basis of the ethos of
responsibility, with particular reference to the writings of Hannah
Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, while the second half
examines these theorists in the context of historical and
contemporary case studies. Finally, the book calls for a 'politics
of hauntology' in memory of the missing - those who might have been
rescued, and those yet to come, who are already among the
disappeared. In this urgent work, Bell demonstrates that a radical
reconfiguration of the understanding of politics is required in
order to safeguard the future and human dignity of stateless
persons.
There have never been more refugees, across the world from Myanmar
to Syria, than at this moment. Many more millions of refugees are
likely to be displaced by the effects of climate change. Why has
politics failed to produce adequate responses to these challenges,
and not heeded the lessons of refugee crises of the past? Are human
rights and international law, or more radically, the case for 'open
borders', sufficient to address them? Nathan Bell argues for
nothing less than a new concept of the political: that societies
(liberal or not, in the mode of the sovereign state or some other
form) embrace an ethos of responsibility for others, where the
right to seek asylum becomes foundational for politics itself. Such
a proposal is at the antipodes of Schmitt's friend-enemy
distinction, such that hospitality and not hostility forms the
basis of political decision-making. This book comprises two halves:
the first establishes the theoretical basis of the ethos of
responsibility, with particular reference to the writings of Hannah
Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, while the second half
examines these theorists in the context of historical and
contemporary case studies. Finally, the book calls for a 'politics
of hauntology' in memory of the missing - those who might have been
rescued, and those yet to come, who are already among the
disappeared. In this urgent work, Bell demonstrates that a radical
reconfiguration of the understanding of politics is required in
order to safeguard the future and human dignity of stateless
persons.
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