Sovereign bodies : citizens, migrants, and states in the postcolonial world / edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat.
Contributor(s): Hansen, Thomas Blom | Stepputat, Finn.
Material type: BookPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005Description: vi, 366 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0691121184 (alk. paper); 0691121192 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Political anthropology | Sovereignty | Human territoriality | Political violence | Postcolonialism | Power (Social sciences) | Sovereign bodiesDDC classification: 305.5/122 Other classification: 73.70 | 89.31 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents onlyItem type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | American Center for Mongolian Studies | GN492 .S68 2005 (Browse shelf) | Available | 30026 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-362) and index.
Territorializing the nation and "integrating the Indian": "Mestizaje" in Mexican official discourses and public culture / Ana Maria Alonso -- Violence, sovereignty, and citizenship in postcolonial Peru / Finn Stepputat -- Sovereign violence and the domain of the political / Partha Chatterjee -- Confinement in the imagination: sovereignty and subjectivity in a quasi-state / Yael Navaro-Yashin -- Naturing the nation: aliens, apocalypse, and the postcolonial state / Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff -- Sovereignty as a form of expenditure / Achille Mbembe -- Sovereigns beyond the state: on legality and authority in urban India / Thomas Blom Hansen -- The sovereign outsourced: local justice and violence in Port Elizabeth / Lars Buur -- Above the law: practices of sovereignty in Surrey Estate, Cape Town / Steffen Jensen -- Citizenship and empire / Barry Hindess -- Splintering cosmopolitanism: Asian immigrants and zones of autonomy in the American west / Aihwa Ong -- Virtual India: Indian IT labor and the nation-state / Peter van der Veer -- Inside out: the reorganization of national identity in Norway / Oivind Fuglerud -- Suspended spaces--contesting sovereignties in a refugee camp / Simon Turner.
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