Sovereignty Unhinged (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Deborah A. Thomas, Thomas; Joseph Masco, Masco

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Produktbeschreibung

Sovereignty Unhinged theorizes sovereignty beyond the typical understandings of action, control, and the nation-state. Rather than engaging with the geopolitical realities of the present, the contributors consider sovereignty from the perspective of how it is lived and enacted in everyday practice and how it reflects people's aspirations for new futures. In a series of ethnographic case studies ranging from the Americas to the Middle East to South Asia, they examine the means of avoiding the political and historical capture that make one complicit with sovereign authority rather than creating the conditions of possibility to confront it. The contributors attend to the affective dimensions of these practices of world-building to illuminate the epistemological, ontological, and transnational entanglements that produce a sense of what is possible. They also trace how sovereignty is activated and deactivated over the course of a lifetime within the struggle of the everyday. In so doing, they outline how individuals create and enact forms of sovereignty that allow them to endure fast and slow forms of violence while embracing endless opportunities for building new worlds.Contributors. Alex Blanchette, Yarimar Bonilla, Jessica Cattelino, Maria Elena Garcia, Akhil Gupta, Lochlann Jain, Purnima Mankekar, Joseph Masco, Michael Ralph, Danilyn Rutherford, Arjun Shankar, Kristen L. Simmons, Deborah A. Thomas, Leniqueca A. Welcome, Kaya Naomi Williams, Jessica Winegar

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478023715
• Artikelnr.: 68957224

Autorenporträt

Deborah A. Thomas is R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair, also published by Duke University Press. Joseph Masco is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and author of The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Feeling Unhinged / Joseph Masco and Deborah A. Thomas  1
Part I. Capture/Escape
1. Love and Disgust: Sovereignty Struggles in Egypt’s Uprising / Jessica
Winegar  27
2. Tasting Sovereignty: Love and Revolution in Peru / María Elena García 
45
3. Death and Disavowal / Deborah A. Thomas  71
4. Pandemic Déjà Vu / Yarimar Bonilla  88
Interlude I. Wading in the Thick: A Sovereign Encounter through Collage /
Leniqueca A. Welcome  96
Part II. Breaking/Making
5. Affective Sovereignties: Mobility, Emplacement, Potentiality / Purnima
Mankekar and Akhil Gupta  113
6. Sovereign Interdependencies / Jessica Cattelino  139
7. Moral Economies, Developmentalist Sovereignty, and Affective Strain /
Arjun Shankar  162
8. The Slaughterhouse after Surplus Value / Alex Blanchette  185
Interlude 2. The Lung Is a Bird and a Fish / Lochlann Jain  211
Part III. Exclusion/Embrace
9. i was dreaming when i wrote this: a mixtape for America / Kristen L.
Simmons and Kaya Naomi Williams  241
10. The Sovereignty of Vulnerability / Danilyn Rutherford  263
11. The Condition of Our Condition / Joseph Masco  277
Afterword / Michael Ralph  297
References  307
Contributors  333
Index  339