Introduction

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the logic of sovereignty and the paradox of sovereignty in the form of the human sacer and the notion of potentiality and potentiality-and-law.

TL;DR: The question of genocide is never far from discussions of settler colonialism Land is life or, at least, land is necessary for life Thus contests for land can be—indeed, often are—contests for war crimes as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Felman and Laub as discussed by the authors define the trauma of the Holocaust as a radical crisis of witnessing "the unprecedented historical occurrence of...an event eliminating its own witness." Through the alternation of a literary and clinical perspective, the authors focus on the henceforth modified relation between knowledge and event.

TL;DR: The authors examines the place of refugees in the national order of things and suggests that the displacement of refugees is constituted differently from other kinds of deterritorialization by those states, organizations, and scholars who are concerned with refugees.