Chang Han

Thermanaerovibrio velox Zavarzina et al. 2000 is a member of the Synergistaceae, a family in the phylum Synergistetes that is already well-characterized at the genome level. Members of this phylum were described as Gram-negative staining anaerobic bacteria with a rod/vibrioid cell shape and possessing an atypical outer cell envelope. They inhabit a large variety of an-aerobic environments including soil, oil wells, wastewater treatment plants and animal gas-trointestinal tracts. They are also found to be linked to sites of human diseases such as cysts, abscesses, and areas of periodontal disease. The moderately thermophilic and organotrophic T. velox shares most of its morphologic and physiologic features with the closely related spe-cies, T. acidaminovorans. In addition to Su883T, the type strain of T. acidaminovorans, stain Z-9701T is the second type strain in the genus Thermanaerovibrio to have its genome se-quence published. Here we describe the features of this organism, together with the non-contiguous genome sequence and annotation. The 1,880,838 bp long chromosome with its 1,751 protein-coding and 59 RNA genes is a part of the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea project. © BY-SA.

This chapter applies Giorgio Agamben’s biopolitical analyses of ‘naked life’ and ‘camp’ to the question of des hommes étrangers in Taiwan and France. The concept of ‘naked life’ applies to a person who is excluded from human jurisdictions and reduced to a merely biological existence. Similarly, what Agamben calls ‘camp’ emerges when a determinate order exercises the management of biological life so as to produce a discursive space which either limits or abolishes the subject’s rights. Camp may thus occur in many forms, be it a concentration camp, a detention room in the airport, or the declaration of a state of exception in a country. Therefore, Agamben’s work helps us understand the liminal spaces that hommes étrangers occupy in a global modern society. In the context of the modern nation-state, the mobility and the conditions of these hommes étrangers problematize above all our definitions of space and territory. The chapter thus aims to study how the status of hommes étrangers, which involves elements of both inclusion and exclusion, continuously shapes a suspended space in the nation-state. The key argument is that the contemporary nation-state, empowered with the sovereignty over human life, sees human life as a political construct and attempts to manage it biopolitically in the framework of citizenship (that is to say, as a population of physical and political bodies in need of government).1 Hence, it is due to this perception of citizenship and the value attached to sovereignty that the hommes étrangers remain perpetually in a peculiar grey-area. Likewise, the chapter will show how the modern nation-state gives rise to legal inequalities that are to the detriment of the foreign population.