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Record Nr.

UNINA9910959994403321

Autore

Joyce Richard John <1978-, >

Titolo

Competing sovereignties / / Richard Joyce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon. ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-29495-3

1-283-58573-1

9786613898180

0-203-11541-4

1-136-29496-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

320.15

Soggetti

Sovereignty

Intellectual property

International relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A GlassHouse book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the crisis of modern sovereignty -- Modern sovereignty and the nation state : a failure of grounds -- Autopositioning : the groundless ground of modern sovereignty -- The constitutive function of relation -- The relation of sovereigns at the national and international levels : India and the WTO -- The relation of sovereigns at the international, national and local levels.

Sommario/riassunto

Competing Sovereignties provides a critique of the concept of sovereignty in modernity in light of claims to determine the content of law at the international, national and local levels. In an argument that is illustrated through an analysis of debates over the control of intellectual property law in India, Richard Joyce considers how economic globalization and the claims of indigenous communities do not just challenge national sovereignty - as if national sovereignty is the only kind of sovereignty - but in fact invite us to challenge our conception of what sovereignty 'is'. Combining theo