... the repossession of land is by extension a repossession of the self. In fact, one could say that, in their respective mediums, both she and Sithole are preoccupied with at once exploring and affirming self-sovereignty as it pertains to the black subject. Bopape, for one, is rather explicit about it in questioning...

... neoliberalism sovereignty Since the 1990s, and especially since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the concept of resilience has pervaded risk-management rationalities, becoming a veritable “ lingua franca of preparedness, adaptation and survivability.” 1 It is a concept deployed in various fields...

...Marc Nichanian; Philip Gerard Abstract The sovereignty that Georges Bataille wanted to implement and to theorize obeys a strange logic. He tried twice: first in 1942, next in the impossible book that was meant to serve as the final volume of his second, projected summa, The Accursed Share...

... directly intervene in state claims to biopolitical and territorial sovereignty imposed via the settler metonymy that conflates the Mapuche body and land in order to dispossess them of a “proper” relation with land. In arguing that the Mapuche hunger strike is also an embodied and discursive precedent...

...Ajay Skaria Abstract In conversation with the work of Qadri Ismail, this essay explores the figure of the minor. It suggests that Ismail and others have given that figure a distinctive torsion by imbuing it with the moral aspiration for a freedom and equality no longer centered on sovereignty...

... a distinct Islamic mystical tradition and against a globally emerging conception of state sovereignty (on which much of history writing wittingly or unwittingly concentrates). These political and intellectual histories converge around the biography of a nineteenth-century itinerant Sufi, Sayyid Fadl Ibn...

... lived in deferral”) and Zionism (concrete political action). The article troubles this distinction by tracing the concept of deferral back into Scholem's earliest writings on messianism and by showing the term's genealogical reliance on the theological-political vocabulary of sovereignty. Against...

... in concrete conflicts. In this way, feminist struggles are producing new images of counter-power, of a popular sovereignty that challenges faith in the state, of insurgencies that have renewed the dynamics of decision and autonomy, and of self-defense and collective force. The October 19 strike...

... to seek to think rape politically, and not just morally. She concludes with a powerful reflection on nonconsent and the kind of sovereignty it can afford to victims and their victimizers who are both oppressed by a system that subsumes them. © 2022 María Moreno 2022 This is an open access article...

... of Congress subject to recall, in the US Constitution recall does not apply to members of the Senate or the House of Representatives. 9 The issue concerns the nature of sovereignty in the modern state. In the medieval practice of the imperative mandate, each procurator represented only the municipality...

... of the state's powerlessness rather than its power? How does this analysis exempt liberalism and the state from critique rather than encourage us to question the entire system? If extreme violence is a manifestation of the state's existence as such, and thus internal to sovereignty, then why should racist...

... of democratic sovereignty that is closely tied to an idea of radical impermanence and opposes any reification of social categories. To draw out the political implications of this impermanence for discussions of democracy and equality beyond Ambedkar s immediate historical context is the main task...

.... Phantom possession in whiteness and masculinity is the excess accumulation of entitlement brought up against the horizon of the possible freedom of oppressed others. Phantom possession consists in the exceedingly unrealistic fantasy that full sovereignty over living, acting, self-conscious beings could...

... of postcolonial sovereignty: “It is for our fortification and growth then that, in the same Third World, we return to religion. And we see that a return to a conscious Islam and a reliance upon it not only does not produce schisms in the opposition to a unified colonialism, but also is a predestined...

... of the political, surpassing the limits of liberal democracy either through electoral votes supporting conservative populisms or through protest and direct action in collective assemblies tending toward progressive politics and renewed forms of popular sovereignty. An examination of these dynamics at work...

... the intention to keep the settlers under Israeli sovereignty without dismantling any settlement, regardless of its location on Palestinian land. On the other hand, it proposed counting the Palestinian citizens in Israel who inhabit the Triangle Area as part of the population and land of the proposed Palestinian...

... economy is the “science” par excellence of this denial. It claims to be a double negation: negation of war and negation of sovereignty, where economic interests and individual egotism replace warring passions, while the self-regulation of the invisible hand makes the sovereign useless and superfluous...

... it to popular sovereignty and thus to democracy. Instead, freedom is equated wholly with the pursuit of private ends, it is appropriately unregulated, and it is largely exercised to enhance the value, competitive positioning, or market share of a person or firm. Its sole political significance is negative...

... giving up on the importance of difference itself in refashioning political futures.” Wilson Chacko Jacob argues for a deeper and more capacious historical and genealogical method that might find forms of anticolonial critique not “so securely tethered to the sovereignty of the state.” Jacob reads...

... of this crisis. This observation leads me to my second question, concerned with certain mobilizations of bodily vulnerability that run counter to sovereign ideas of agency and mastery. This challenge to sovereignty revolves around two aspects of vulnerability in association with relationality, and my account...