Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
and Rancière
Mustafa Dikeç
Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX
Email: m.dikec@rhul.ac.uk
Actors, Arendt maintained, have the freedom and [i]f statelessness corresponds not only to a situation of
power for new beginnings, for bringing ‘something rightlessness but also to a life deprived of public appear-
ance, how could those excluded from politics publicly claim
into being which did not exist before’ by acting with
the right to have rights, the right to politics? (2011, 33)
others in the public realm. It is in this sense that she
saw political action as establishing new relations and According to Rancière (2001), the way Arendt identi-
creating new realities – new worlds (2006a, 150; fies politics with a specific way of life turns out to be