Name: Asylum. The Concept and the Practice (en Inglés)
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Author: Ranjana Khanna

portada Asylum. The Concept and the Practice (en Inglés)

Asylum. The Concept and the Practice (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Duke University Press

Autor

Ranjana Khanna

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

226

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.8x6 cm

ISBN13

9781478039419

Asylum. The Concept and the Practice (en Inglés)

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In Asylum, Ranjana Khanna examines how sanctuaries, refugee camps, mental asylums, holding facilities for asylum seekers, and state boundaries are all understood through the term “asylum.” Engaging with continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, literary theory, postcolonial studies, and Marxist critique, Khanna considers the multiple and entangled senses of asylum in the histories of mental health, incarceration, and human rights. She shows that a diversity of forms of migration are assessed in the terms of a new set of moral criteria concerning the right to political asylum. Simultaneously signifying safety and incarceration, Khanna shows how postcolonial asylum constructs spaces of hospitality and hostility that render divisions between the human and nonhuman, dignity and shame, value and disposability. Khanna demonstrates that the notion of asylum reveals the importance of sovereignty as understood through the formulation and imposition of the concepts of the human and of the valuable.

Ranjana Khanna considers the multiple and entangled senses of asylum in sanctuaries, refugee camps, mental asylums, holding facilities, and state boundaries, showing how postcolonial asylum constructs spaces of hospitality and hostility that render divisions between the human and nonhuman, dignity and shame, value and disposability.