Towards a Citizenship of the European Union

International audienceBasing on the various legal and historical experiences of different States, as well as the actual ambitions of European construction, the authors explore some challenges around the construction of an European citizenship.Les auteurs explorent des pistes de construction d'une citoyenneté européenne sur la base des expériences historiques et juridiques nationales, mais aussi en évaluant les ambitions de la construction européenne

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In Deadly Time: The Lasting On of Waste in Mayhew’s London

This paper examines the temporal dimension of waste in Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor as an instance of how modernity has produced a largely hidden domain of the non-identical and indeterminate. Through a consideration of the phenomena of uselessness, decay and poverty I argue that the temporal dimension of waste is constituted as a corrosive or malign ‘Deadly Time.’ In placing such emphasis on time directed towards death, I aim to show that Mayhew’s undisciplined researches can be seen as a valuable source for understanding why modern thinking struggles to come to terms with waste

Has de tener un cuerpo que mostrar: el grado cero de los Derechos Humanos

The paper analyzes the relationship between human rights and biopolitics. From four legal events, we study how human rights have excluded the body, politicizing bare life. The questions to be answered are two: It’s possible a zero generation (degree) of human rights around the idea of body? Can we articulate an alien right to immune logic of biopolitics that politicize the bare life?El trabajo analiza la relación entre derechos humanos y biopolítica. A partir de cuatro acontecimientos jurídicos, se estudia cómo los derechos humanos han excluido el cuerpo, politizando la vida desnuda. Las preguntas que se tratan de responder son dos: ¿Es posible una generación (grado) cero de los derechos humanos precisamente en torno a la idea de cuerpo? ¿Podemos articular un derecho ajeno a la lógica inmunitaria de la biopolítica que politiza la nuda vida

On the Matter of Time

Drawing on several disciplinary areas, this article considers diverse cultural concepts of time, space, and materiality. It explores historical shifts in ideas about time, observing that these have gone full circle, from visions in which time and space were conflated, through increasingly divergent linear understandings of the relationship between them, to their reunion in contemporary notions of space-time. Making use of long-term ethnographic research and explorations of the topic of Time at Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Study (2012–13), the article considers Aboriginal Australian ideas about relationality and the movement of matter through space and time. It asks why these earliest explanations of the cosmos, though couched in a wholly different idiom, seem to have more in common with the theories proposed by contemporary physicists than with the ideas that dominated the period between the Holocene and the Anthropocene. The analysis suggests that such unexpected resonance between these oldest and newest ideas about time and space may spring from the fact that they share an intense observational focus on material events. Comparing these vastly different but intriguingly compatible worldviews meets interdisciplinary aims in providing a fresh perspective on both of them