Space of exception

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This term plays an important role in Derek Gregory’s text about Guantanamo Bay. For him Guantanamo Bay is an example of a space of exception; a place where the normal law no longer holds. Guantanamo Bay is based in Cuba so it’s law-system doesn’t have to deal with the American constitution or American courts. The power-relations then are completely different, because of the lack of a system to guide this power. Prisoners don’t have any rights and the guards are free in there doing without any judgment. This specific and special created place for extraordinary power-relations forms one of the most famous spaces of exception.

References (according APA conventions)

  • Gregory, D., 2006 The black flag: Guantanamo Bay and the space of exception. Geogr. Ann., 88 B (4): 405-427

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