ISBN:
9780691121192
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (378 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Sovereign Bodies : Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World
Keywords:
Human territoriality
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Political anthropology
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Political violence
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Postcolonialism
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Power (Social sciences)
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Sovereign bodies
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Sovereignty
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
9/11 and its aftermath have shown that our ideas about what constitutes sovereign power lag dangerously behind the burgeoning claims to rights and recognition within and across national boundaries. New configurations of sovereignty are at the heart of political and cultural transformations globally. Sovereign Bodies shifts the debate on sovereign power away from territoriality and external recognition of state power, toward the shaping of sovereign power through the exercise of violence over human bodies and populations. In this volume, sovereign power, whether exercised by a nation-state or
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction; Race, Law, and Citizenship; Death, Anxiety, and Rituals of State; Body, Locality, and Informal Sovereignty; Postcolonial Citizenship in the Empire; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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