Sovereign bodies : citizens, migrants, and states in the postcolo nial world - Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958-; Stepputat, Finn. (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005)
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 S tepputat -- Sovereign violence and the domain of the political / Partha Chatterjee -- Confinement in the imagination: sovereignty and subjecti vity in a quasi-state / Yael Navaro-Yashin -- Naturing the nation: alie ns, apocalypse, and the postcolonial state / Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff -- Sovereignty as a form of expenditure / Achille Mbembe -- So vereigns beyond the state: on legality and authority in urban India / T homas Blom Hansen -- The sovereign outsourced: local justice and violen ce in Port Elizabeth / Lars Buur -- Above the law: practices of soverei gnty in Surrey Estate, Cape Town / Steffen Jensen -- Citizenship and em pire / Barry Hindess -- Splintering cosmopolitanism: Asian immigrants a nd zones of autonomy in the American west / Aihwa Ong -- Virtual India: Indian IT labor and the nation-state / Peter van der Veer -- Inside ou t: the reorganization of national identity in Norway / Oivind Fuglerud -- Suspended spaces--contesting sovereignties in a refugee camp / Simon Turner.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-362) and index.
Keywords: Political anthropology; Sovereignty; Human territoriality; Political violence