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Black hole state: human rights and the work of suspension in post-war Kosovo
Much has been made of the Agambenian framework of exception and the regime of legal suspension it establishes. This paper ethnographically examines the hard work that is required to produce legal suspension within the param-eters of the law by looking at the practice of property restitution of transitional institutions in post-war Kosovo. Kosovo’s ‘black hole state’ reveals how the legal bureaucracies established to usher in human rights serve to perpet-uate the state of suspension rather than realising their utopian goals.
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Social AnthropologyISSN
0964-0282Publisher
WileyExternal DOI
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1Volume
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83-95Department affiliated with
- Anthropology Publications
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- Sussex Rights and Justice Research Centre Publications
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2020-03-04First Open Access (FOA) Date
2022-02-18First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2020-03-03Usage metrics
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