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Finally, I highlight the importance of reading the sovereign through the figures of both a "homo sacer" and a "homo exemplar" because the sovereign’s power is manifested not only via the production of a state of exception but also equally through the creation of a state of example.

To achieve this, I present two cases from #Bangladesh and #Finland that demonstrate how one sovereign’s exception may be depicted as an #example by another, and how both the exception and the example may coexist within the same system.

The provocation of the paper, and its key contribution to knowledge, is to step back from the point where Agamben positions these two as indistinguishable and to clearly distinguish between them — simultaneously marking a shift in the current scholarship of the exception by bringing the example in.

The paper focuses on the #example as a contraposition to Giorgio Agamben’s #exception. In this paper, I argue that while equally crucial, the example remains a surprisingly under-studied phenomenon even though Agamben views it as the symmetrical opposite of the exception.