Dividing practices

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Dividing practices

This is a key concept of Derek Gregory. Dividing practices are practices which are used to make a distinction between the self and the other/the insiders and the outsiders. Orientalism is an example of a dividing practice, dividing the west from the east. And making spaces outside the west diffrerent from the west and subordinate to the west. In the case of Guantánamo Bay law and violence are used as dividing practices to inside and outside. Which results in spaces of exception (Gregory, 2006). Institutions are made to regulate these distinctions, for example hospitals are made to separate the sick from the healthy.

Michel Foucault also used this term to describe a mode of objectification of the subject (Foucaults Theory).

References

• Gregory, D. (2006). The black flag: Guantánamo Bay and the space of exeption. Geogr. Ann.
• Foucaults Theory. (n.d.). Retrieved October 4, 2011 from http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kate.broom/ap/lecturefoucault/06foucault_objectivication.htm

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