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

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Other Authors: Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958-, Stepputat, Finn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton University Press, 2005
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Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2004054933-b.html
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.