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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 165–192.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Debbie Lisle; Andrew Pepper This article uses Ridley Scott's 2001 blockbuster film Black Hawk Down to examine the claim that popular film is the “newest component of sovereignty.” While the topic of the film – the 1993 UN/US intervention in Somalia – lends itself to straightforward politicization...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 102–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
... failed early and caught on late to the need for a globally coordinated response. Coupled with a deep resistance by states to the alienation of any degree of sovereignty to international institutions, the prospect of a global solution to the zombie question remains elusive. This essay offers...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 137–158.
Published: 01 July 2006
... trajectory in the work of his followers. There is a discernible homology and, indeed, to an extent, a convergence between consumerist Cultural Studies and the neoliberal ideology of consumer sovereignty, named here as “cool capitalism.” The genealogy of “cool” is traced and its incorporation into capitalism...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (1): 22–41.
Published: 01 March 2013
... and blood medicine—as sites of biopolitical contestation, I examine the process by which these Haitian refugees' blood became the site of international anxieties over legal sovereignty, biopolitics, citizenship, and reproductive rights. This article places the asylum process and the HIV antibody blood test...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 20–39.
Published: 01 March 2018
... sovereignty, acknowledging the relations denied by bare death. The nomos of the earth is reinterpreted as a nomos of the soil, reenvisioning a Europe beyond borders and welcoming “difference” as the grounds for responsible politics. For example, the border in the Spanish enclave Melilla routinely stages...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 327–343.
Published: 01 November 2018
... sovereignty, then where is the dark discontent? Or, to use Bobbio’s words, if the Age of Light is all about living a life—however imaginary, however illusory—shot through with an obstinate refusal to accept foundation, authority, proposition, imposition, systems of conduct, value, morality, in short, law...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 5–20.
Published: 01 March 2007
... focus upon political and cultural sovereignty as a means of dealing with anxieties about mutating national cultural identities, and the revival of a defensive nationalism that is readily racialized or otherwise regressively culturally legitimated. In this second movement, then, and particularly...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 18–35.
Published: 01 March 2015
... is necessary because modernity unfolds in the direction of positivism. The modern age is “the age of neutralizations and depoliticizations” ( Schmitt 2007 : 80). But what if, contra Schmitt, political theology has always been a political theory of sovereignty? After all, the history of the concept...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (1): 132–134.
Published: 01 March 2018
... is capable of making that ambition a reality, as the increased use of drones has diminished state sovereignty. Shaw draws on Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan , which theorized that to control our “brute survivalism,” society exchanged its freedom for sovereign protection; sovereignty was implied by distinct...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 159–192.
Published: 01 July 2006
... that will be succeeded by a Palestinian demographic dominance and eventual Palestinian political sovereignty. 4 (Of course, population explosion without sufficient economic growth, and under competing patrimonial rather than strong unified state political conditions, can bring its own intensification of social...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 337–356.
Published: 01 November 2013
... argues that the power to define who can legitimately kill and be killed is the foundation of state sovereignty: “To exercise sovereignty is to exercise control over mortality and to define life as the deployment and manifestation of power” (12). But while Mbembe uses the concept of necropolitics...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 66–82.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Georges . 1993 . The History of Eroticism and Sovereignty . Vols. 2 and 3 of The Accursed Share . Translated by Hurley Robert . New York : Zone . Berry Christopher J. 1994 . The Idea of Luxury: A Conceptual and Historical Investigation . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 208–226.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., renders the site of labour useless, creating a new kind of wasteland with a new revolution.” This revolution consists of her rejection of her identity as a domestic worker and the reclamation of her sovereignty as human. The dissensual action is a kind of human activity—negative in form and unproductive...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 265–288.
Published: 01 July 2011
... sovereignty or constitutional questions about the separation of Church and state, the post-secular age has made this relationship nebulous, delocalized, unstable, and unclear ( de Vries and Sullivan 2006: 28 ). And yet, the importance of political theology has arguably not ceased to increase since the term...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 97–114.
Published: 01 March 2006
... be but the sovereignty of the state of America and its war machine. And politics, since the time of the Greeks, cannot ground itself except situating itself with/in the city. And so there is that re-turning of perspectives, with renewed perceptual organizations, to the telluric city. On the one hand, there are or have...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 193–212.
Published: 01 July 2006
... are “internationalizing”: in processes of globalization which result in the erosion of state autonomy, of capacities to mobilize and dispose of resources for effective domestic and international policy making; and in the sharing of state sovereignty as a result of integration in international policy networks ( Held 1995...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 July 2011
... sovereignty in terms of the ability to decide “on the exception” to the routine application of rules and procedures. “The exception confounds the unity and order of the rationalist scheme … In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (2): 177–193.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., exposing in the process the contiguous relations or patriarchal continuum between parental family authority and postcolonial state sovereignty (sovereignty not in the political sense of the term per se, but in the sense of biopolitical and necropolitical power over the life and death of ordinary Tunisians...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (1): 39–56.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of sovereignty and the denigration and domination of Indigenous peoples’ being, knowledge, philosophies, cultures, and laws. More generally, I am challenging any claims to universality, which, if not explicitly made, are at least assumed within academic theories of justice. I am not positing another “universal...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 219–238.
Published: 01 July 2011
... contribute” ( Deleuze 1989: 217 ). In Deleuze's time, political critique of a radical kind was indeed defined largely by a preoccupation with resistance to the mythologies of national unanimity on which the institutions of European state sovereignty still rested. Here and now, however, the nostalgia...
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