Sovereign bodies :: citizens, migrants, and states in the postcolonial world /

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....

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Weitere Verfasser: Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958- (HerausgeberIn), Stepputat, Finn (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005.
Schriftenreihe:Anthropology online.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vi, 366 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-362) and index.
ISBN:9781400826698
1400826691
9780691121192
0691121192
9780691121185
0691121184
1282158244
9781282158245
9786612158247
6612158247

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