Book Reviews : The State of Germany: The National Idea in the Making, Unmaking and Remaking of the Modern Nation State. Edited by John Breuilly. London and New York: Longman. 1992. xii + 243 pp.  8.99 (pbk)

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-268
Author(s):  
N. Stargardt
The Rohingya ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 110-134
Author(s):  
Nasir Uddin

Chapter 5 focuses on the vulnerable conditions of stateless people because the state regulates their everyday lives in various forms, committing severe injustices and producing various inequalities by yielding illegibility in the state structure. The modern nation-state has produced the concept of citizenship rendering some stateless. Since the state of statelessness sanctions that some people do not belong to any state, they cannot claim any rights from any state and therefore easily become subject to injustice, inequality, and discrimination and are even subjected to death. The treatment of stateless people as illegal human bodies and as animals can be termed as ‘bare life’, as Agamben would argue. A life is ‘bare’ because it can be taken by anyone without any legal intercession, as this life does not exist ‘before the law’. This chapter depicts a vivid picture of the Rohingyas, where the state intervenes in their everyday lives amid the reproduction of vulnerabilities in order to reconfirm their statelessness.


2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-168
Author(s):  
Kobi Michael ◽  
Rob Geist Pinfold ◽  
Nadav Shelef ◽  
Hayim Katsman ◽  
Paul L. Scham ◽  
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