Sovereign power = ability to creates zones of bare life

Sovereign power relates to bare life through the ability to establish zones that are excluded from normal society, zones where life reduced to its biological minimum.

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Themes & Theories in International Relations
7. Representation, resistance, biopower
C. Biopolitics
D. Bare life
Sovereign power = ability to creates zones of bare life
Agamben: extreme form of biopolitcal life = 'bare life'
Bare life = politically unqualified / excluded life
Sovereign's ability to proclaim ‘state of exception' =create bare life
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