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Politics in dark times : encounters with Hannah Arendt /

Table of Contents: “…Internal and external sovereignty in Arendt Andrew Arato and Jean Cohen; 8. …”

Mohawk interruptus : political life across the borders of settler states / by Simpson, Audra, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Parker, Lewis Henry Morgan, and the writing of the Iroquois confederacy -- Ethnographic refusal: anthropological need -- Borders, cigarettes, and sovereignty -- The gender of the flint: Mohawk nationhood and citizenship in the face of empire -- Interruptus.…”

Hindu rulers, Muslim subjects : Islam, rights, and the history of Kashmir / by Rai, Mridu

Table of Contents: “…1. Territorializing sovereignty: the dilemmas of control and collaboration -- 2. …”

Poverty and the quest for life : spiritual and material striving in rural India / by Singh, Bhrigupati

Table of Contents: “…First impressions, and further -- The headless horseman of central India : sovereignty at varying thresholds of life -- Mitra-Varuna : state power and powerlessness -- The coarse and the fine : contours of a slow-moving crisis -- Contracts, bonds, and bonded labor -- Erotics and agonistics : intensities deeper than deep play -- Divine migrations : neighborliness between humans, animals, and gods -- The waxing and waning life of Kalli -- Bansi mahatmaya (the greatness of Bansi), an erotic ascetic -- Departure, and marriages and deaths -- The quality of life : a daemonic view.…”

What is a people? / by Badiou, Alain

Table of Contents: “…/ Pierre Bourdieu -- "We, the People" : Thoughts on Freedom of Assembly / Judith Butler -- To Render Sensible / Georges Didi-Huberman -- The People and the Third People / Sadri Khiari -- The Populism That Is Not to Be Found / Jacques Ranciere -- Conclusion : Fragile Collectivities, Imagined Sovereignties / Kevin Olson.…”

Global shadows : Africa in the neoliberal world order / by Ferguson, James, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…: observations from an inconvenient continent -- Paradoxes of sovereignty and independence : "real" and "pseudo-" nation-states and the depoliticization of poverty -- De-moralizing economies : African socialism, scientific capitalism, and the moral politics of structural adjustment -- Transnational topographies of power : beyond "the state" and "civil society" in the study of African politics -- Chrysalis : the life and death of the African renaissance in a Zambian internet magazine -- Of mimicry and membership : Africans and the "new world society" -- Decomposing modernity : history and hierarchy after development -- Governing extraction : new spatializations of order and disorder in neoliberal Africa.…”

Spatialising politics : culture and geography in postcolonial Sri Lanka / by Brun, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…: centre and periphery in civil society peace work / Camilla Orjuela -- Rebuilding lives, undermining oppositions : spaces of war and peace in the North / Nihal Perera -- Fractured sovereignty : the LTTE's state-building in an interconnected world / Øivind Fuglerud -- Concluding thoughts / Cathrine Brun and Tariq Jazeel.…”

Kamikaze, cherry blossoms, and nationalisms : the militarization of aesthetics in Japanese history / by Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- Part 1: THE SYMBOLISM OF CHERRY BLOSSOMS IN PRE-MEIJI JAPAN -- The Field of Meaning, Images, and Aesthetics 27 -- Part 2: THE ROAD TO PRO REGE ET PATRIA MORI: -- NATURALIZATION OF IMPERIAL NATIONALISM -- 2 The Emperor's Two Bodies: Sovereignty, Theocracy, and Militarization 61 -- 3 The Militarization of Cherry Blossoms: Cherry Blossoms as the Souls of Fallen Soldiers 102 -- 4 The Militarization of the Masses 125 -- Part 3: THE MAKING OF THE TOKKOTAI PILOTS -- 5 The Tokkotai Operation 157 -- 6 Five Tokkotai Pilots 186 -- Part 4: NATIONALISMS, PATRIOTISMS, AND THE ROLE OF AESTHETICS IN MECONNAISSANCE -- 7 State Nationalism and Naturalization Processes 245 -- 8 Patriotism: Global Intellectual Currents as Its Source 261 -- 9 The Crooked Timber of the Cherry 279 -- Summary 299 -- Appendix: List of Readings by Four Pilots 307.…”

Feminist interpretations of Benedict Spinoza /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Through Spinoza's "looking glass" / Moira Gatens -- Dominance and difference : a Spinozistic alternative to the distinction between "sex" and "gender" / Genevieve Lloyd -- Autonomy and the relational individual : Spinoza and feminism / Aurelia Armstrong -- Spinoza on the pathos of idolatrous love and the hilarity of true love / Amelie Rorty -- Spinoza and sexuality / Alexandre Matheron -- Reason, sexuality, and the self in Spinoza / David West -- What Spinoza can teach us about embodying and naturalizing ethics / Heidi Morrison Ravven -- Adam and the serpent : everyman and the imagination / Paola Grassi -- The envelope : a reading of Spinoza's ethics, "of God" / Luce Irigaray -- Re-reading Irigaray's Spinoza / Sarah Donovan -- The politics of the imagination / Moira Gatens -- Law and sovereignty in Spinoza's politics / Susan James.…”

How to hide an empire : a history of the greater United States / by Immerwahr, Daniel, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…The fall and rise of Daniel Boone -- Indian Country -- Everything you always wanted to know about Guano but were afraid to ask -- Teddy Roosevelt's very good day -- Empire state of mind -- Shouting the battle cry of freedom -- Outside the charmed circle -- White city -- Doctors without borders -- Fortress America -- Warfare state -- There are times when men have to die -- Kilroy was here -- Decolonizing the United States -- Nobody knows in America, Puerto Rico's in America -- Synthetica -- This is what God hath wrought -- The empire of the red octagon -- Language is a virus -- Power is sovereignty, Mister Bond -- Baselandia -- The war of points.…”

Democracy by petition : popular politics in transformation, 1790-1870 / by Carpenter, Daniel , 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Signature moments, 1846-1849 -- Eruptions and democracies -- Stirrings: Petitions, prayers, and their venues -- Petitioning in the Settler Republic: space, capital, soldiers -- First nations, first wave petitioners -- Slavery, skin, and black strategy -- Awakenings: Patriotes and rebels: petitioning and parliamentary sovereignty in French Canada -- Producers, electors, city democrats -- The coalescence of opposition: from the Bank War to Canadian reform -- Abolition and the transformation of U.S. politics -- Democracies and closures: Women contesting collectively: work, war, Iglesia, and the ballot -- The eclipse of lordship: petitioning and land tenure in the United States and Canada -- Native continuance, native governance: The closure of petition democracy in the U.S. …”

Mercantilism reimagined : political economy in early modern Britain and its empire /

Table of Contents: “…Turner -- Companies : monopoly, sovereignty, and the British East Indies / Philip J. …”

From subjects to citizens : society and the everyday state in India and Pakistan, 1947-1970 / by Sherman, Taylor C., Ed, Gould, William, Ed. 1973-, Ansari, Sarah F. D., Ed

Table of Contents: “…Sherman -- Punjabi refugees' rehabilitation and the Indian state : discourses, denials and dissonances / Ian Talbot -- Sovereignty, governmentality and development in Ayub's Pakistan : the case of Korangi Township / Markus Daechsel -- Everyday expectations of the state during Pakistan's early years : letters to the editor, Dawn (Karachi), 1950-1953 / Sarah Ansari -- Concrete 'progress' : irrigation, development and modernity in mid-twentieth century Sind / Daniel Haines -- Partition narratives : displaced trauma and culpability among British civil servants in 1940s Punjab / Catherine Coombs.…”

Resisting the sacred and the secular : women's activism and politicized religion in South Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Resisting the sacred and the secular / Amrita Basu Reproducing the legitimate community: secularity, sexuality, and the state in postpartition India / Ritu Menon (Re)presenting Islam: manipulating gender, shifting state practices, and class frustrations in Bangladesh / Shelley Feldman The outsider(s) within: sovereignty and citizenship in Pakistan / Shahnaz Rouse Gender politics, legal reform, and the Muslim community in India / Zoya Hasan Women, community, and nation: a historical trajectory for Hindu identity politics / Tanika Sarkar Women and men in a contemporary pietist movement: piest movement: the case of the Tablīghī Jamaʹat / Barbara D. …”

The guardians : the League of Nations and the crisis of empire / by Pedersen, Susan, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…New Times, New Norms, 1927-1933 -- Preface: Enter the Germans -- 7. The struggle over sovereignty -- 8. Market economies or command economies? …”
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Kashmir's contested pasts : narratives, sacred geographies, and the historical imagination / by Zutshi, Chitralekha, 1972-

The rise of French liberal thought: a study of political ideas from Bayle to Condorcet/ by Martin, Kingsley, 1897-1969

The ethics of development : from economism to human development by Gasper, Des

Table of Contents: “…Understanding Value-Systems; Comparison of value positions in development evaluation; The structure of market-oriented arguments; 'Consumer sovereignty'; 3.6. Conclusion: Beyond Economism; 4. …”