The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty : : Political Imagination beyond the State / / ed. by Madeleine Reeves, Rebecca Bryant.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Achniotis, Panos,; Bartelson, Jens,; Bryant, Rebecca,; Dalsheim, Joyce,; Dzenovska, Dace,; Friedman, State Sara L.,; Hromadžic, Azra,; Lombard, Louisa,; Reeves, Madeleine,; Wilson, Alice,; Wimpelmann, Torunn,
• HerausgeberIn: Bryant, Rebecca,; Reeves, Madeleine,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.) :; 7 b&w halftones, 3 maps

Around the world today, border walls and nationalisms are on the rise as people express desires to "take back" sovereignty. This collection uses ethnographic research in disputed and exceptional places to study sovereignty claims from the ground up. While it might immediately seem that citizens desire a stronger state, the cases of compromised, contested, or failed sovereignty in this volume point instead to political imaginations beyond the state form. Authors use cases from Spain to Afghanistan, Western Sahara to Taiwan, to show how calls to take back control or to bring back order are best understood as longings for sovereign agency. By paying close ethnographic attention to these desires and their consequences, The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty offers a new way to understand why these yearnings have such profound political resonance in a globally interconnected world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Sovereign -- 1. Sovereignty in the Skies: An Anthropology of Everyday Aeropolitics -- 2. Sovereignty as Generator of Inconsistent State Desire in Northeastern Central African Republic -- 3. “Because I Have a Hookup”: Cheating Citizens and the Unbearable State in Post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina -- 4. Aspirational Sovereignty and Human Rights Advocacy: Audience, Recognition, and the Reach of the Taiwan -- 5. Gender, Violence, and Competing Sovereign Claims in Afghanistan -- 6. Everyday Sovereignty in Exile: People, Territory, and Resources among Sahrawi Refugees -- 7. Existential Sovereignty: Latvian People, Their State, and the Problem of Mobility -- 8. Sovereign Days: Imagining and Making the Catalan Republic from Below -- 9. The False Promises of Sovereignty: Enclaves, Exclaves, and Impossible Politics in the Jewish State -- 10. Signs of Sovereignty: Mapping and Countermapping at an “Unwritten” Border -- Epilogue: The Ironies of Misrecognition -- Contributors -- Index