Sovereign Bodies Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World

"This invigorating and intellectually stimulating book promises to reinvent the very questions we ask about the practice, object, and experience of the political in the postnational age that is coming ever more sharply into view. The authors provide a serviceable and relevant theoretical horizon not only for a moribund political anthropology but for a sclerotic political science as well. By placing the problem of sovereignty at the heart of political projects of all kinds, and by focusing on violence as the principal means by which such projects are contingently realized, they have provided scholars of the postcolonial world with a new set of conceptual tools to think about power beyond the state."--Eric Worby, Yale University "This exciting book brings together essays that represent some of the new turns in recent political thought in and about the formerly colonized regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Moreover, throughout the volume these essays are in conversation with case studies from the West and with Western political philosophy.Sovereign Bodiesis a significant and timely contribution to ongoing attempts at producing political ethnographies and theories of globalization."--Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago, author ofProvincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical DifferenceHansen, Thomas Blom is the author of 'Sovereign Bodies Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World', published 2005 under ISBN 9780691121192 and ISBN 0691121192.