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100			_aHansen, Thomas Blom _eed.
245			_aSovereign Bodies : Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World
260			_bPrinceton University Press, _c2005 _aPrinceton :
300			_avi, 366 p. ; _b24 cm
365			_b42.00 _cUSD _d85.50
490			_aAnthropology online.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a9/11 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 tentative and unstable whose efficacy depends less on formal rules than on repeated acts of violence. Following the editors' introduction are fourteen essays by leading scholars from around the globe that analyze cultural meanings of sovereign power and violence, as well as practices of citizenship and belonging--in South Africa, Peru, India, Mexico, Cyprus, Norway, and also among transnational Chinese and Indian populations. Sovereign Bodies enriches our understanding of power and sovereignty in the postcolonial world and in "the West" while opening new conceptual fields in the anthropology of politics. The contributors are Ana María Alonso, Lars Buur, Partha Chatterjee, Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, Oivind Fuglerud, Thomas Blom Hansen, Barry Hindess, Steffen Jensen, Achille Mbembe, Aihwa Ong, Finn Stepputat, Simon Turner, Peter van der Veer, and Yael Navaro-Yashin.
650			_aAnthropologie politique
650			_aHuman territoriality
650			_aPolitical anthropology
650			_aTerritorialite humaine
650			_aAfrica
650			_a Aliens
650			_aEthnic enclaves
650			_aImmigration
650			_aLiberalism
650			_aMigration
650			_aNation-state
650			_a Political society
650			_aRefugees
650			_aTransmigration
650			_a Political violence
650			_aWestphalian system
650			_aXenophobia
650			_aShivsena
650			_aBody shopping
650			_aCheap IT labour
700			_aStepputat, Finn _eed.
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