The right to have rights of undocumented migrants: inadequacy and rigidity of legal categories of migrants and minorities in international law of human rights

Kmak, Magdalena

doi:10.1080/13642987.2020.1716740

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“…The work of Jacques Rancière has inspired a variety of disciplines, including Political Theory (Bassett, 2014; Chambers, 2013; Schaap, 2011), Philosophy (Apostolidis, 2016; Deranty and Ross, 2012; Panagia, 2009), Aesthetics (Davis, 2010; Panagia, 2006), Education Studies (Biesta, 2010, 2011; Bingham and Biesta, 2010; Pelletier, 2009), Citizenship Studies and Resistance Studies (Cámara, 2013; Flores, 2003; May, 2010; Nicholls, 2013; Nyers and Rygiel, 2012; Puggioni, 2015, 2018; Schwiertz, 2016). In this article, I explore Rancière’s theorisation of the political, taking into consideration the way in which it has been applied to political struggles and social movements, including the Occupy movements (Bassett, 2014; Lorey, 2014; Prentoulis and Thomassen, 2013); undocumented mobilisation (Galindo, 2012; Kmak, 2020; Millner, 2011; Rigby and Schlembach, 2013); Black Lives Matter protests (Havercroft and Owen, 2016; Mackin, 2016); and the Palestinian intifada, among others (May, 2010). While this literature mainly explores the (political) transformation of the undocumented, the excluded and the abject into visible and audible subjects – that is, from being ‘uncounted’ to ‘counted’ (Rancière, 1999) – I am interested in scrutinising Rancière’s distinction between la police and la politique , particularly, how disruptive politics is for the dominant (police) order.…”

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Rethinking the ordinary and the extraordinary: Reading Rancière’s dissensual politics through Kuhn

Puggioni

2023

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Jacques Rancière’s theorisation of the political has been particularly influential in investigating political struggles and social movements. By distinguishing between the police order – tasked with maintaining the dominant (hierarchical) system – and politics – aiming at breaking that system – Rancière suggests reading the political as a disruptive event. However, he does not specifically engage with the question of how politics affects and changes the police order. This is what this article aims at exploring. Building upon Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, I suggest approaching the police order in the same way Kuhn approaches ‘normal science’ and reading the political in the same way Kuhn reads revolutionary science. I ultimately suggest that Rancière’s theorisation of the political is limited because he does not (sufficiently) account for the interplay between police/politics nor for the emergence of an after-politics, that is, a new (ordinary) police order that emerges out of (extraordinary) political events.

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