The everyday lives of sovereignty : political imagination beyond the state / / edited by Rebecca Bryant and Madeleine Reeves [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 320.15
• Soggetto topico: Sovereignty
• Persona (resp. second.): BryantRebecca (Professor of anthropology); ReevesMadeleine
• Note generali: Also issued in print: 2021.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Around the world, border walls and nationalisms are on the rise as people express the desire to 'take back' sovereignty. The contributors to this collection use ethnographic research in disputed and exceptional places to study sovereignty claims from the ground up. While it might immediately seem that citizens desire a stronger state, the cases of compromised, contested, or failed sovereignty in this volume point instead to political imaginations beyond the state form. Examples from Spain to Afghanistan and from Western Sahara to Taiwan show how calls to take back control or to bring back order are best understood as longings for sovereign agency.
• Titolo autorizzato: The everyday lives of sovereignty
• ISBN: 1-5017-5574-9; 1-5017-5575-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910554222003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cornell scholarship online.