Subject of Sovereignty - Relationality and the Pivot Past Liberalism

Seeking new forms of democracy, progressive politics raises a fundamental question: what is the alternative to the allegedly coherent, self-contained liberal subject that represents the project of modernity? Exploring the themes of nature, race, and the divine, this book identifies the more realistic alternative in the "relational subject": a subject that is inseparable from the global field of relations through which it emerges and yet distinct from that field because it lives a life that no one else ever has. Recognizing ourselves as such subjects allows us not only to rethink politics, but, more profoundly, to envision sovereignty as the means by which we each rejuvenate ourselves and the polities we constitute with others.

About the author

Gregory Feldman is a political anthropologist at the University of Windsor. He is the author of three books including the The Gray Zone: Sovereignty, Human Smuggling, and Undercover Police Investigation in Europe (Stanford University Press, 2019); We Are All Migrants: Political Action and the Ubiquitous Condition of Migrant-Hood (Stanford Briefs, 2015); The Migration Apparatus: Security, Labor, and Policymaking in the European Union (Stanford University Press, 2011).

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Feldman, Feldman Gregory
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9781805390961
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-096-1
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Political Ideologies, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social and cultural anthropology, Political ideologies and movements, Political and Economic Anthropology; Sociology