Sovereign Bodies
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Author |
: Thomas Blom Hansen |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 379 |
Release |
: 2009-01-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400826698 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400826691 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sovereign Bodies by : Thomas Blom Hansen
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. In this volume, sovereign power, whether exercised by a nation-state or by a local despotic power or community, is understood and scrutinized as something tentative and unstable whose efficacy depends less on formal rules than on repeated acts of violence. Following the editors' introduction are fourteen essays by leading scholars from around the globe that analyze cultural meanings of sovereign power and violence, as well as practices of citizenship and belonging--in South Africa, Peru, India, Mexico, Cyprus, Norway, and also among transnational Chinese and Indian populations. Sovereign Bodies enriches our understanding of power and sovereignty in the postcolonial world and in "the West" while opening new conceptual fields in the anthropology of politics. The contributors are Ana María Alonso, Lars Buur, Partha Chatterjee, Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, Oivind Fuglerud, Thomas Blom Hansen, Barry Hindess, Steffen Jensen, Achille Mbembe, Aihwa Ong, Finn Stepputat, Simon Turner, Peter van der Veer, and Yael Navaro-Yashin.
Author |
: Joanna Woodall |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 1997-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0719046149 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780719046148 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Portraiture by : Joanna Woodall
Portraiture, the most popular genre of painting, occupies a central position in the history of Western art. Despite this, its status within academic art theory is uncertain. This volume provides an introduction to major issues in its history.
Author |
: Anya Bernstein |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2013-11-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226072692 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022607269X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religious Bodies Politic by : Anya Bernstein
Religious Bodies Politic examines the complex relationship between transnational religion and politics through the lens of one cosmopolitan community in Siberia: Buryats, who live in a semiautonomous republic within Russia with a large Buddhist population. Looking at religious transformation among Buryats across changing political economies, Anya Bernstein argues that under conditions of rapid social change—such as those that accompanied the Russian Revolution, the Cold War, and the fall of the Soviet Union—Buryats have used Buddhist “body politics” to articulate their relationship not only with the Russian state, but also with the larger Buddhist world. During these periods, Bernstein shows, certain people and their bodies became key sites through which Buryats conformed to and challenged Russian political rule. She presents particular cases of these emblematic bodies—dead bodies of famous monks, temporary bodies of reincarnated lamas, ascetic and celibate bodies of Buddhist monastics, and dismembered bodies of lay disciples given as imaginary gifts to spirits—to investigate the specific ways in which religion and politics have intersected. Contributing to the growing literature on postsocialism and studies of sovereignty that focus on the body, Religious Bodies Politic is a fascinating illustration of how this community employed Buddhism to adapt to key moments of political change.
Author |
: Patricia Clare Ingham |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2015-04-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812292541 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812292545 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sovereign Fantasies by : Patricia Clare Ingham
During and after the Hundred Years War, English rulers struggled with a host of dynastic difficulties, including problems of royal succession, volatile relations with their French cousins, and the consolidation of their colonial ambitions toward the areas of Wales and Scotland. Patricia Ingham brings these precarious historical positions to bear on readings of Arthurian literature in Sovereign Fantasies, a provocative work deeply engaged with postcolonial and gender theory. Ingham argues that late medieval English Arthurian romance has broad cultural ambitions, offering a fantasy of insular union as an "imagined community" of British sovereignty. The Arthurian legends offer a means to explore England's historical indebtedness to and intimacies with Celtic culture, allowing nobles to repudiate their dynastic ties to France and claim themselves heirs to an insular heritage. Yet these traditions also provided a means to critique English conquest, elaborating the problems of centralized sovereignty and the suffering produced by chivalric culture. Texts such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Alliterative Morte Arthure, and Caxton's edition of Malory's Morte Darthur provide what she terms a "sovereign fantasy" for Britain. That is, Arthurian romance offers a cultural means to explore broad political contestations over British identity and heritage while also detailing the poignant complications and losses that belonging to such a community poses to particular regions and subjects. These contestations and complications emerge in exactly those aspects of the tales usually read as fantasy-for example, in the narratives of Arthur's losses, in the prophecies of his return, and in tales that dwell on death, exotic strangeness, uncanny magic, gender, and sexuality. Ingham's study suggests the nuances of the insular identity that is emphasized in this body of literature. Sovereign Fantasies shows the significance, rather than the irrelevance, of medieval dynastic motifs to projects of national unification, arguing that medieval studies can contribute to our understanding of national formations in part by marking the losses produced by union.
Author |
: Samantha Pinto |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 164 |
Release |
: 2020-08-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781478009283 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1478009284 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Infamous Bodies by : Samantha Pinto
The countless retellings and reimaginings of the private and public lives of Phillis Wheatley, Sally Hemings, Sarah Baartman, Mary Seacole, and Sarah Forbes Bonetta have transformed them into difficult cultural and black feminist icons. In Infamous Bodies, Samantha Pinto explores how histories of these black women and their ongoing fame generate new ways of imagining black feminist futures. Drawing on a variety of media, cultural, legal, and critical sources, Pinto shows how the narratives surrounding these eighteenth- and nineteenth-century celebrities shape key political concepts such as freedom, consent, contract, citizenship, and sovereignty. Whether analyzing Wheatley's fame in relation to conceptions of race and freedom, notions of consent in Hemings's relationship with Thomas Jefferson, or Baartman's ability to enter into legal contracts, Pinto reveals the centrality of race, gender, and sexuality in the formation of political rights. In so doing, she contends that feminist theories of black women's vulnerable embodiment can be the starting point for future progressive political projects.
Author |
: Jenny Edkins |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0415947359 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780415947350 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sovereign Lives by : Jenny Edkins
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author |
: Euripides Altintzoglou |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2018-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429016707 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429016700 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Portraiture and Critical Reflections on Being by : Euripides Altintzoglou
This book analyzes the philosophical origins of dualism in portraiture in Western culture during the Classical period, through to contemporary modes of portraiture. Dualism – the separation of mind from body - plays a central part in portraiture, given that it supplies the fundamental framework for portraiture’s determining problem and justification: the visual construction of the subjectivity of the sitter, which is invariably accounted for as ineffable entity or spirit, that the artist magically captures. Every artist that has engaged with portraiture has had to deal with these issues and, therefore, with the question of being and identity.
Author |
: Wendy Shelly Greyeyes |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2022 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0816544875 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780816544875 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of Navajo Nation Education by : Wendy Shelly Greyeyes
On the heels of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Department of Diné Education, this important education history explains how the current Navajo educational system is a complex terrain of power relationships, competing agendas, and jurisdictional battles influenced by colonial pressures and tribal resistance. In providing the historical roots to today's challenges, Wendy Shelly Greyeyes clears the path and provides a go-to reference to move discussions forward.
Author |
: Frans-Willem Korsten |
Publisher |
: Uitgeverij Verloren |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789087041311 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9087041314 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sovereignty as Inviolability by : Frans-Willem Korsten
Sovereignty was a key issue in the baroque, and especially in the Dutch Republic with its incredibly complicated political organisation. Consequently, sovereignty was explored in and through Joost van den Vondel'S theatre plays. Vondel sensed a fundamental problem in the construction of Europe'S politico-cultural 'House'. The questions he asked with respect to that construction concerned the relationship between theology and politics, including in terms of gender and culture. Because these questions could barely be considered explicitly, let alone actually discussed, they had to be presented through literature theatre. A close reading of a number of plays reveals not only a pivotal discussion that concerns Vondel'S own times, but also an on-going struggle in the European exploration of sovereignty. In that context, power and potency a distinction made by Spinoza determine the status of sovereignty that any body can acquire.
Author |
: Astrida Neimanis |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2017-01-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474275392 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474275397 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bodies of Water by : Astrida Neimanis
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Water is the element that, more than any other, ties human beings in to the world around them – from the oceans that surround us to the water that makes up most of our bodies. Exploring the cultural and philosophical implications of this fact, Bodies of Water develops an innovative new mode of posthuman feminist phenomenology that understands our bodies as being fundamentally part of the natural world and not separate from or privileged to it. Building on the works by Luce Irigaray, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gilles Deleuze, Astrida Neimanis's book is a landmark study that brings a new feminist perspective to bear on ideas of embodiment and ecological ethics in the posthuman critical moment.