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Sovereign bodies : citizens, migrants, and states in the postcolonial world /
9/11 and its aftermath have shown that our ideas about what constitutes sovereign power lag dangerously behind the burgeoning claims to rights and recognition within and across national boundaries. New configurations of sovereignty are at the heart of political and cultural transformations globally....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Anthropology online.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 9/11 and its aftermath have shown that our ideas about what constitutes sovereign power lag dangerously behind the burgeoning claims to rights and recognition within and across national boundaries. New configurations of sovereignty are at the heart of political and cultural transformations globally. Sovereign Bodies shifts the debate on sovereign power away from territoriality and external recognition of state power, toward the shaping of sovereign power through the exercise of violence over human bodies and populations. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 366 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-362) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400826698 1400826691 9780691121192 0691121192 9780691121185 0691121184 1282158244 9781282158245 9786612158247 6612158247 |