INTRODUCTION

Jane Mummery
States of Exception

ESSAYS

Matthew Sharpe
A Coincidentia Oppositorium? On Carl Schmitt and
New Australian Conservatism

Raffaela Puggioni
Refugees reception and the construction of identities:
encountering Kurdish refugees in Italy

Jason Adams
Redrawing the 'Imaginary Lines': Exceptional Space
in an Exceptional Time

Claire Sutherland
ASEAN Discourse: The Rhetoric of Human Rights
and Asian Values

ESSAYS

Arthur Saniotis
Why is Amrozi Smiling? 'Misrecognition' and the Politics of Terror

Suren Pillay
Thoughts on the Government of Death in War: the elusive
search for Afghanistan's dead

Shakira Hussein
Among the Other Sisterhood: reflections on encounters
with the women's wing of the Jamaat-i-Islami (Pakistan)

REVIEW ESSAYS

Brian Goldstone
On Democratic Secularism
(William Connolly, Why I Am Not a Secularist, Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1999; Jeffrey Stout, Democracy
and Tradition, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004)

Ben Wellings
Human Rights: Lives and Intersections
(Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith, Human Rights and Narrated Lives:
The Ethics of Recognition. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Lawrence Niewojt
Spatial Practices and the Rejection of "Modern Aspirations" in Australia
(Allaine Cerwonka, Native to the Nation: Disciplining Landscapes and Bodies in Australia. University of Minnesota Press, 2004.)