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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816174903321

Titolo

Sovereign lives : power in global politics / / edited by Jenny Edkins, Veronique Pin-Fat and Michael J Shapiro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-93794-X

1-283-64309-X

0-203-33873-1

1-135-93795-8

Descrizione fisica

xi, 265 p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

EdkinsJenny

Pin-FatVeronique <1965->

ShapiroMichael J

Disciplina

320/.01/1

Soggetti

Power (Social sciences)

Sovereignty

Globalization

International relations

World politics - 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction : life, power, resistance / Jenny Edkins and Veronique Pin-Fat -- 2. The complexity of sovereignty / William E. Connolly -- 3. Correlating sovereign and biopower / Michael Dillon -- 4. Time for politics / Erin Manning -- 5. On the "triple frontier" and the "borderization" of Argentina : a tale of zones / Guillermina Seri -- 6. "The nation-state and violence" : Wim Wenders contra imperial sovereignty / Michael J. Shapiro -- 7. Killing Canadians : the international politics of capital punishment / Patricia Molloy -- 8. Fictional development sovereignties / Christine Sylvester -- 9. Creating/negotiating interstices : indigenous sovereignties / Karena Shaw -- 10. Ebola takes to the road : mobilizing viruses in defense of the nation-state / Jorge Fernandes -- 11. "In search of agency" : beyond the "old/new" biopolitics of sovereignty in Bosnia / Jasmina



Husanovic -- 12. Conclusion : sovereignties, exceptions, worlds / R.B.J. Walker.