Browsing by Author "Schaap, Andrew"
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Aboriginal sovereignty and the democratic paradox
Schaap, Andrew (Edinburgh University Press, 2008-11) -
Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Politics of Reconciliation: The Constituent Power of the Aboriginal Embassy in Australia
Muldoon, Paul; Schaap, Andrew (Pion, 2010-06-29)As a re-occupation of land immediately in front of Parliament House for six months in 1972, the Aboriginal Embassy was an inspiring demonstration of Aboriginal self-determination and land rights. The Embassy re-appeared ... -
The absurd proposition of Aboriginal sovereignty
Schaap, Andrew (Ashgate, 2009-03) -
Arendt's Constitutional Question
Schaap, Andrew; Christodoulidis, Emilios (2011-06-08) -
Confounded by Recognition: The Apology, the High Court and the Tent Embassy in Australia
Muldoon, Paul; Schaap, Andrew (2011-12-13)In postcolonial states reconciliation processes can be understood as civic forums in which the suffering inflicted upon certain identity groups as a result of misrecognition are adjudicated and addressed. Reconciliation ... -
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
Schaap, Andrew (SAGE Publications, 2009-03-06)An encyclopedia entry about the political theory of Hannah Arendt. -
Hannah Arendt and the Philosophical Repression of Politics
Schaap, Andrew (Continuum, 2011-06-06)Rancière and Arendt are both praxis theorists who want to escape political philosophy’s reduction of political issues to questions of government. For each of them, Plato seems to stand in for their former teacher, exemplifying ... -
Introduction to "Law and Agonistic Politics"
Schaap, Andrew (Ashgate Publishing, 2009-03)The concept of the agōn, meaning struggle, comes to Anglo-American political theory from the Ancient Greeks via nineteenth-century Germany. Influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche and Jacob Burkhardt, Hannah Arendt and Michel ... -
Political abandonment and the abandonment of politics in Agamben’s critique of human rights
Schaap, Andrew (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)In this paper I examine Giorgio Agamben’s critique of human rights. In particular, I unpack the implications of the three key claims that Agamben highlights in concluding his book, Homo Sacer, for understanding the politics ... -
The politics of need
Schaap, Andrew (Ashgate, 2010)In this chapter, I examine why Hannah Arendt views the satisfaction of human needs as, at best a pre-political concern and, at worst, the basis of an anti-political politics. This requires unpacking how Arendt develops ... -
Reconciliation as Ideology and Politics
Schaap, Andrew (Wiley Blackwell, 2008-07-09)Against the critique of reconciliation as an irredeemably ideological concept, I want to retrieve the concept of reconciliation for a popular politics. As a term of political discourse, reconciliation has been objected ... -
The rights of political animals: Jacques Rancière’s critique of Hannah Arendt
Schaap, Andrew (SAGE Publications, 2008)In her influential discussion of the plight of stateless people, Hannah Arendt invokes the ‘right to have rights’ as the one true human right. In doing so, however, she establishes an aporia. If statelessness corresponds ...