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Naming the dead and the politics of the "human"

The summer of 2014 saw several campaigns to name the dead of Gaza. This paper aims to explore these initiatives through the idea of the ‘human’; understood both in terms of grievability, as a life that matters, and as a ‘litigious name’ employed by subaltern groups to make political demands. My argu...

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Main Author:	Moya Lloyd
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2016
Subjects:	Political science not elsewhere classified Philosophy not elsewhere classified Politics of the human Naming Dehumanization Grievability Hierarchies of death Political Science not elsewhere classified Philosophy
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/22838
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