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Poverty As An Everday State Of Exception, Julie Nice
Poverty As An Everday State Of Exception, Julie Nice
Julie A. Nice
This essay applies the provocative theory of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben to Poverty Law. It is forthcoming as a book chapter in a multidisciplinary volume of papers exploring the relations between accumulation and insecurity. Professor Nice distills Agamben's theory of the state of exception, that the dominant paradigm of modern democracy is founded on the state's power to exclude from rights those who are otherwise included within the political order. Professor Nice posits that the state's abandonment of poor people exemplifies an everyday example of the state of exception. She illustrates how poor people lack meaningful constitutional protection, legal entitlement, …
Forty Years Of Welfare Policy Experimentation: No Acres, No Mule, No Politics, No Rights, Julie Nice
Forty Years Of Welfare Policy Experimentation: No Acres, No Mule, No Politics, No Rights, Julie Nice
Julie A. Nice
This essay is drawn from a keynote address for a symposium on Ten Years After Welfare Reform: Making Work Pay. The keynote was delivered on the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., who was then on the cusp of launching his Poor People’s Campaign. Professor Nice argues that the momentum toward a meaningful anti-poverty movement was stymied by the untimely deaths in 1968 of both Dr. King and the leading anti-poverty scholar, Professor Jacobus tenBroek. Examining anti-poverty policy over the forty years since their deaths, Professor Nice criticizes the narrow focus of scholars on social policy, …