Sovereign bodies citizens, migrants, and states in the postcolonial world / edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat.

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Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958-, Stepputat, Finn.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Territorializing the nation and "integrating the Indian": "Mestizaje" in Mexican official discourses and public culture / Ana Maria Alonso
  • Violence, sovereignty, and citizenship in postcolonial Peru / Finn Stepputat
  • Sovereign violence and the domain of the political / Partha Chatterjee
  • Confinement in the imagination: sovereignty and subjectivity in a quasi-state / Yael Navaro-Yashin
  • Naturing the nation: aliens, apocalypse, and the postcolonial state / Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff
  • Sovereignty as a form of expenditure / Achille Mbembe
  • Sovereigns beyond the state: on legality and authority in urban India / Thomas Blom Hansen
  • The sovereign outsourced: local justice and violence in Port Elizabeth / Lars Buur
  • Above the law: practices of sovereignty in Surrey Estate, Cape Town / Steffen Jensen
  • Citizenship and empire / Barry Hindess
  • Splintering cosmopolitanism: Asian immigrants and zones of autonomy in the American west / Aihwa Ong
  • Virtual India: Indian IT labor and the nation-state / Peter van der Veer
  • Inside out: the reorganization of national identity in Norway / Oivind Fuglerud
  • Suspended spaces--contesting sovereignties in a refugee camp / Simon Turner.