Excluded within :, Kramer, Sina.

In this groundbreaking book, Sina Kramer uses the framework of constitutive exclusion to describe the phenomenon of internal exclusion -- exclusions that occur within a political body. More specifically, constitutive exclusions occur when a system of thought or a political body defines itself by
excluding some difference (based on gender, race, class, sexuality, etc.) that is considered intolerable to the boundaries that comprise the body or systems political worth. This exclusion is not absolute, but preserves the very difference it seeks to repress in order to define itself against what
it is not. Yet, as Kramer argues, if those who are excluded contest their repression, their political claims are deemed threatening and criminal. But can we ever be without constitutive exclusions? And can we avoid reinscribing them through critique? Kramer ultimately argues that to do justice to
the excluded, to render those claims intelligible as political claims, instead requires the reconstitution of the political body on new terms.