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Everyday Lives of Sovereignty - Political Imagination Beyond the State

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"This book addresses popular assertions of sovereignty and projects of sovereign agency with particular reference to areas of disputed territory in contemporary Europe, Asia, North Africa and the Middle East"--

List of contents










Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Sovereign Agency, by Rebecca Bryant and Madeleine Reeves

1. Sovereignty in the Skies: An Anthropology of Everyday Aeropolitics, by Rebecca Bryant

2. Sovereignty as Generator of Inconsistent State Desire in Northeastern Central African Republic, by Louisa Lombard

3. "Because I Have a Hookup": Cheating Citizens and the Unbearable State in Post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina, by Azra Hromadži¿

4. Aspirational Sovereignty and Human Rights Advocacy: Audience, Recognition, and the Reach of the Taiwan State, by Sara Friedman

5. Gender, Violence, and Competing Sovereign Claims in Afghanistan, by Torunn Wimpelmann

6. Everyday Sovereignty in Exile: People, Territory, and Resources among Sahrawi Refugees, by Alice Wilson

7. Existential Sovereignty: Latvian People,Their State, and the Problem of Mobility, by Dace Dzenovska

8. Sovereign Days: Imagining and Making the Catalan Republic from Below, by Panos Achniotis

9. The False Promises of Sovereignty: Enclaves, Exclaves, and Impossible Politics in the Jewish State, by Joyce Dalsheim

10. Signs of Sovereignty: Mapping and Countermapping at an "Unwritten" Border, by Madeleine Reeves

Epilogue: The Ironies of Misrecognition, by Jens Bartelson


About the author










Rebecca Bryant is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at University of Utrecht. She is author of The Past in Pieces.

Madeleine Reeves is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at Manchester University. She is author of Border Work.


Product details

Authors Rebecca (EDT)/ Reeves Bryant, Rebecca Reeves Bryant
Assisted by Rebecca Bryant (Editor), Madeleine Reeves (Editor)
Publisher Cornell University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.06.2021
 
EAN 9781501755743
ISBN 978-1-5017-5574-3
No. of pages 277
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

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