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Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World
Hansen
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Description for Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World
Paperback. 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. This volume helps in understanding of power and sovereignty in the postcolonial world and in "the West". Editor(s): Hansen, Thomas Blom; Stepputat, Finn. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPHC; JPS; JPVH1; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 234 x 23. Weight in Grams: 538.
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 by a local despotic power or community, is understood and scrutinized as something ... Read more
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 by a local despotic power or community, is understood and scrutinized as something ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
538g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691121192
SKU
V9780691121192
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About Hansen
Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat previously coedited States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State . Hansen is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. His recent books include Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay and The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India (both Princeton). Stepputat is Senior ... Read more
Reviews for Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World
This invigorating and intellectually stimulating book promises to reinvent the very questions we ask about the practice, object, and experience of the political in the post-national age that is coming ever more sharply into view. The authors provide a serviceable and relevant theoretical horizon not only for a moribund political anthropology but for a sclerotic political science as well. By ... Read more