Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Sovereign -- 1. Sovereignty in the Skies: An Anthropology of Everyday Aeropolitics -- 2. Sovereignty as Generator of Inconsistent State Desire in Northeastern Central African Republic -- 3. “Because I Have a Hookup”: Cheating Citizens and the Unbearable State in Post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina -- 4. Aspirational Sovereignty and Human Rights Advocacy: Audience, Recognition, and the Reach of the Taiwan -- 5. Gender, Violence, and Competing Sovereign Claims in Afghanistan -- 6. Everyday Sovereignty in Exile: People, Territory, and Resources among Sahrawi Refugees -- 7. Existential Sovereignty: Latvian People, Their State, and the Problem of Mobility -- 8. Sovereign Days: Imagining and Making the Catalan Republic from Below -- 9. The False Promises of Sovereignty: Enclaves, Exclaves, and Impossible Politics in the Jewish State -- 10. Signs of Sovereignty: Mapping and Countermapping at an “Unwritten” Border -- Epilogue: The Ironies of Misrecognition -- Contributors -- Index |