RT Article
T1 The Political Fiction of "Immigrants" and the Coming Community in the Anthropocene Age
JF Pastoral psychology
VO 71
IS 6
SP 735
OP 751
A1 LaMothe, Ryan 1955-
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1822883717
AB This article contends that the concepts of "immigrant" and "refugee" are political fictions that have various functions within and for society. Given the realities of the Anthropocene Age, when millions of people will migrate within and between borders, it is necessary to exposes the fabrication of political concepts, such as "immigrant," for the sake of reconceptualizing our political philosophies and theologies. In short, by problematizing political and theologicafl constructions of immigrants/refugees, we are invited to think and act otherwise toward included-excluded others. Giorgi Agamben’s notions of inoperativity, singularity, and coming community—inflected through the political concept of care—are used to depict a kind of political dwelling that is independent of any representable condition for belonging, which is then framed from a theological perspective.
K1 Care
K1 Community
K1 Immigrants
K1 Inoperativity
K1 Political
K1 Singularity
K1 Sovereignty
K1 Theology
DO 10.1007/s11089-022-01015-1