...Jacqueline Bhabha Copyright © 1996 by The University of Chicago 1996 Embodied Rights: Gender Persecution, State Sovereignty, and Refugees...

...Ann Laura Stoler © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 On Degrees of Imperial Sovereignty Ann Laura Stoler We don’t do empire. Donald Rumsfeld, quoted in Roger Cohen, “Strange...

...Georgina Ramsay The recent mass displacement of refugees has been described internationally as a “crisis.” But crisis implies eventfulness: a distinct problem that can be solved. The urgency of solving this problem of displacement has seen the use of expansive techniques of sovereignty across...

...Mayanthi L. Fernando The politics of recognition remains a common way to articulate and adjudicate minorities’ claims, yet, as a number of scholars have argued, calling on the state for redress serves to secure the state’s sovereignty. Drawing on Muslim French activism in France, the author...

... Sovereignty Judith Surkis In the late spring of 2008, a controversial marital separa- tion case renewed debates about the place of “Muslims” in French society. A civil tribunal in the city of Lille granted an annulment to a certain Mr. C. because his spouse...

...). Moral Geographies and the Ethics of Post-Sovereignty Michael J. Shupiro Territory is no doubt a geographical notion, but it’s first of all a juridico-political one: the area...

...Jürgen Habermas; Ciaran Cronin Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 The European Nation-State: On the Past and Future of Sovereignty and Citizenship Jürgen Habermas...

...: Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty in Africa Achille Mbembe Translated by Steven Rendall F rom a philosophical point of view, globalization might be compared with what Heidegger called “the gigantic” (das...

...Thomas Blom Hansen Abstract Theories of sovereignty in the twentieth century are generally based on a teleological “out-of-Europe” narrative where the modern, centralized nation-state form gradually spread across the world to be the foundation of the international order. In this article, the author...

... that characterize global biological economies. As rhetorical and juridical devices, sovereign claims over viruses and genomes seek to establish new kinds of enclosures to control biological life. The recasting of sovereignty over biological parts, we argue, gains purchase by tethering biological materials...

...Maria Sonevytsky This article investigates how sovereignty works in practice by attending to the aural public sphere of Crimea, as “Eastern music” is produced and circulated by the Crimean Tatar radio and as it penetrates the public spaces of microtransit. I argue that through the dissemination...

... of traffic—from ideals of citizenship in automotive traffic, to neoliberal demands to economize time in industrial supply-chain provisioning, to efforts to establish sovereignty violently, as drug traffickers seem to—autonomous agency emerges as an object of desire, but one that is difficult to secure...

...Christian Sorace In this essay, I argue that the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) affective sovereignty results from its ability to adapt confessional practices to fit its governing needs at different moments in history. I analyze what recent televised confessions of party cadres reveal about...

..., rivalries, successes, and failures—reminds us of something overlooked in recent decades: that sovereignty in the past and in many areas today is complex, divided, layered, and configured on multiple founding principles and practices. This article points to the varied repertoires of power used by empires...

... escrache , a form of public shaming incorporated into administrative practice. By eliciting judgment from neighbors and TV viewers, the tax operation mobilizes a moral economy of debtor-creditor relations that—however underrepresented in liberal discourses of government—is productive of sovereignty itself...

... others. Police power, as the surviving repository and legatee of the historical wreckage of sovereignties past, is the anarchy that has captured the state in the present. [email protected] Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 epidermalization police power scarification political...

... and the conventions of Chinese cartography. These maps do much more than celebrate the extent of Chinese sovereignty; they also mourn the loss of national territories through a cartography of national humiliation. The goal of this essay is to shift our attention from the diplomatic issues of international borders...

... of sovereignty and reciprocity. 2016 community environment fracking Pennsylvania tragedy of the commons On a picture-perfect September morning in 2013 in the northern Pennsylvania hamlet of Trout Run, Cindy Bower noticed something unusual as she peered out the sunroom windows at the placid pond...

... enduring socialist legacies of art, sovereignty, and reading between the lines of state power come into play in new urban settings. 2014 Just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things, in creating something that has never yet existed . . . they . . . conjure up the spirits...

... into by states and companies that govern many extractive enclaves. Because concessions have a long, convoluted, and underexamined history, they are an ideal object for examining the shifting configurations of law, sovereignty, property, and government that undergird contemporary extraction. Neither simply public...