The aim of this workshop is to examine different situations of colonial, semi-colonial or post-colonial domination in under and over-globalized conflicts in which one segment of the population, or sometimes the population as a whole, is devoid of political rights and the effective protection of citizenship, and is dominated (in its own eyes at least) by a foreign ruling apparatus in conditions of chronic disaster verging sometimes on human catastrophe. The point is also not to compare the 'solutions' proposed or imposed by various international agents but to include an investigation of the interventions of these agents as one aspect of the phenomena to be studied.

Other phenomena to be examined to include:

• new modes and forms of governing power in situations in which the suspension of the law has become the rule and where the production of disastrous living conditions is not simply an incidental side-effects of a bloody conflict but central to the administration of the conflict by the governing power.
• the emergence of 'zones of emergency', some of which may be formally under occupation and others, not where new forms of power are imposed on non-citizens
• the large-scale mobilization of the occupiers' resources to obtain its own security