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Sovereign bodies [electronic resource] : citizens, migrants, and states in the postcolonial world / edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat

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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.
Physical Description
vi, 366 p. ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958- and Stepputat, Finn
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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.
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ISBN
0691121184 (alk. paper)
0691121192 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-362) and index.
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