The everyday lives of sovereignty : political imagination beyond the state /

"This book addresses popular assertions of sovereignty and projects of sovereign agency with particular reference to areas of disputed territory in contemporary Europe, Asia, North Africa and the Middle East"--

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Other Authors: Bryant, Rebecca (Professor of anthropology) (Editor), Reeves, Madeleine (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Series:Cornell scholarship online.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Enacting Sovereign Agency / Rebecca Bryant and Madeleine Reeves
  • Sovereignty in the Skies : An Anthropology of Aeropolitics / Rebecca Bryant
  • "Because I Have a Hookup" : Cheating Citizens and the Unsovereign State in Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina / Azra Hromadžić
  • Aspirational Sovereignty and Human Rights Advocacy : Audience, Recognition, and the Reach of the Taiwan State / Sara Friedman
  • Gender, Violence and Competing Sovereign Claims in Afghanistan / Torunn Wimpelmann
  • Sovereignty as Generator of Inconsistent State Desire in Northeastern Central African Republic / Louisa Lombard
  • Everyday Sovereignty in Exile : People, Territory and Resources among Sahrawi Refugees / Alice Wilson
  • Existential Sovereignty : Latvian People, Their State, and the Problem of Mobility / Dace Dzenovska
  • Sovereign Days : Imagining and Making the Catalan Republic from Below / Panos Achniotis
  • The False Promises of Sovereignty : Enclaves, Exclaves, and Impossible Politics in the Jewish State / Joyce Dalsheim
  • Signs of Sovereignty : Mapping and Counter-Mapping at an Unwritten Border / Madeleine Reeves
  • Epilogue : The Ironies of Misrecognition / Jens Bartelson.