How are lives treated? What do we do with the dead? Or rather: What does it say about a society when it treats lives, certain lives, the lives of workers, the lives of exiles, the lives of prisoners, lives made vulnerable, unequal? And what does it say about its values when some of these workers, exiles or prisoners are allowed to die or exposed to death, when we turn a blind eye to their condition or mobilize to protect them? Basically, what is the moral economy of life and death in the contemporary world? This is the question posed by this colloquium, to which each of the speakers endeavours to provide some answers.
