Everyday Lives of Sovereignty

Rebecca Bryant and Madeleine Reeves

Description

Around the world, border walls and nationalisms are on the rise as people express the desire to "take back" sovereignty. The contributors to this collection use 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. Examples from Spain to Afghanistan and from Western Sahara to Taiwan 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. Contributors: Panos Achniotis, Jens Bartelson, Joyce Dalsheim, Dace Dzenovska, Sara L. Friedman, Azra Hromadzic, Louisa Lombard, Alice Wilson, and Torunn Wimpelmann.

Sujets

• Development studies

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 juin 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501755767
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

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THEEVERYDAYLIVES OF SOVEREIGNTY

THE EVERYDAY LIVESOF SOVEREIGNTY PoliticalImaginationbeyondtheState

EditedbyRebeccaBryantand Madeleine Reeves

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

ITHACA AND LONDON

Copyright © 2021 by Cornell University

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First published 2021 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names:Bryant,Rebecca(Professorofanthropology),editor.| Reeves,Madeleine, editor. Title:Theeverydaylivesofsovereignty:politicalimaginationbeyondthestate / edited by Rebecca Bryant and Madeleine Reeves. Description:Ithaca[NewYork]:CornellUniversityPress,2021.| Includesbibliographical references and index. Identifiers:LCCN2020039285(print)|LCCN2020039286(ebook)| ISBN79N0518|)rBSIrdhaveco5775(36kc)|(paperba10715155774839 ISBN051879NBSI|)kooeb(5057750115987)(pdf7671755 Subjects: LCSH: Sovereignty. Classification:LCCJC327.E982021(print)|LCCJC327(ebook)| DDC320.1/5—dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2020039285 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2020039286

Cover image: “Man crossing the unrecognized border between Georgia and Abkhazia, 2016.” Photo by Rebecca Bryant. Used by permission.

Contents

ListofIllustrations Acknowledgments

Introduction:TowardanAnthropologyofSovereign AgencyRebecca Bryant and Madeleine Reeves 1.  Sovereignty in the Skies: An Anthropology of Everyday AeropoliticsRebecca Bryant 2.  Sovereignty as Generator of Inconsistent State Desire in Northeastern Central African RepublicLouisa Lombard 3.  “Because I Have a Hookup”: Cheating Citizens and the Unbearable State in PostDayton BosniaHerzegovina AzraHromadži´c 4.  Aspirational Sovereignty and Human Rights Advocacy: Audience, Recognition, and the Reach of the Taiwan StateSara L. Friedman 5. Gender, Violence, and Competing Sovereign Claims in AfghanistanTorunn Wimpelmann 6.  Everyday Sovereignty in Exile: People, Territory, and Resources among Sahrawi RefugeesAlice Wilson 7.  Existential Sovereignty: Latvian People, Their State, and the Problem of MobilityDace Dzenovska 8.  Sovereign Days: Imagining and Making the Catalan Republic from BelowPanos Achniotis 9.  The False Promises of Sovereignty: Enclaves, Exclaves, and Impossible Politics in the Jewish StateJoyce Dalsheim 10. Signs of Sovereignty: Mapping and Countermapping at an “Unwritten” BorderMadeleine Reeves Epilogue:TheIroniesofMisrecognitionJens Bartelson

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Illustrations

1.  Map showing Cyprus’s three airports 2.  Map showing some of the destinations from Larnaca Airport 3.  Cyprus Turkish Airlines plane taking off from Ercan Airport 4.  Pilot and stewardesses of Turkish Air, Turkey’s flag carrier, in 1974 5.  “I love my country, but it is stealing my dreams☺” Mapping the Crisis Exhibit. 6.  Production ofpuškiceduring recess 7.  Production ofpuškiceduring recess 8.  Map of Western Sahara 9.  Gas distribution 10.  Homemade license plate

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Acknowledgments

AnumberofthepaperspublishedherewereoriginallypresentedinOctober 2015 at the conference “The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty,” held in Nicosia, Cyprus, and sponsored by the Norwegian Research Council. Support for the conference was part of the fouryear project, “Imagined Sovereignties,” directed by Åshild Kolås of the Peace Research Institute Oslo. We thank the NRC for its funding of the conference and this publication, as well as PRIO and its branch office in Cyprus for their support of the project and the long process of bringing this collection into print. Several colleagues commented on earlier versions of the Introduction and generously shared their reflections on the academic lives of sovereignty in the disciplines of IR and political geography. For their astute feedback at different stages of the project we are particularly grateful to Stef Jansen, Penny Harvey, John Heathershaw, Fiona McConnell, Stefanie Ortmann, Ed Schatz, and Chika Watanabe. We are grateful to Roger Haydon at Cornell University Press for his enthusiasm for the project, and to Karen Laun and Jack Rummel for their careful edits of the manuscript.

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