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About: Sovereignty is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 25909 publications have been published within this topic receiving 410148 citations.


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27 Jun 1996
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a postmodemity this time analysis of time, life, and law in Aztec Mexico and the United States, focusing on relative time and the limits of law.
Abstract: Preface IntroductionPart I 1. Time, Life, and Society 2. Relative Time and the Limits of Law 3. Agency and AuthorityPart II 4. Time and Territory in Ancient China 5. Time and Sovereignty in Aztec Mexico 6. Time, Life, and Law in the United StatesConclusion: Postmodemity This TimeNotes References Index

147 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the ESC's European Governance of Public Safety Research Network published a special issue on community safety in Europe, written by the ESC Special Issue on Community Safety in Europe.
Abstract: Draws on commissioned research in the Thames Valley. In special issue on community safety in Europe, written by the ESC's European Governance of Public Safety Research Network. Widely cited and reprinted in German in S. Krassman (ed), (2007) Michel Foucault's `History of Governmentality` as a Paradigm in the Social Sciences.

147 citations

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TL;DR: The dilemma before us seems obvious enough as discussed by the authors, and both the prevailing interpretations of what security can mean and the resources mobilized to put these interpretations into practice are fixed primarily in relation to the military requirements of supposedly sovereign states.
Abstract: The dilemma before us seems obvious enough. Threats to people’s lives and well-being arise increasingly from processes that are worldwide in scope. The possibility of general nuclear war has been the most dramatic expression of our shared predicament, but potentially massive ecological disruptions and gross inequities generated by a global economy cause at least as much concern. Nevertheless, both the prevailing interpretations of what security can mean and the resources mobilized to put these interpretations into practice are fixed primarily in relation to the military requirements of supposedly sovereign states. We are faced, in short, with demands for some sort of world security, but have learned to think and act only in terms of the security of states. Symptoms of this dilemma are readily apparent. States are less and less convincing in their claims to offer the security that partly legitimizes their power and authority. Moreover, processe’s set in motion by the demands of military defense evidently make us all more and more insecure as inhabitants of a small and fragile planet. Whether judged through apocalyptic images of extermination, in terms of the comparative costs of missiles and medical facilities, or on the basis of accounts of the integration of military production into the seemingly benign routines of everyday life, we know that it is scarcely possible to invoke the term %ecurity” without sensing that something is dreadfully wrong with the way we now live. Elements of this dilemma have been familiar for a considerable time. They have provoked controversy ever since the states system emerged from the decaying feudal hierarchies of early modern Europe. The contradiction between the presumed legitimacy of war and claims about reason, progress, enlightenment, and civilization has

147 citations

Book
01 Dec 2001
TL;DR: In this article, David E. Wilkins and K. Tsianina Lomawaima discuss how the political rights and sovereign status of Indian nations have variously been respected, ignored, terminated, and unilaterally modified by federal lawmakers as a result of the ambivalent political and legal status of tribes under western law.
Abstract: In the early 1970s, the federal government began recognizing self-determination for American Indian nations. As sovereign entities, Indian nations have been able to establish policies concerning health care, education, religious freedom, law enforcement, gaming, and taxation. Yet these gains have not gone unchallenged. Starting in the late 1980s, states have tried to regulate and profit from casino gambling on Indian lands. Treaty rights to hunt, fish, and gather remain hotly contested, and traditional religious practices have been denied protection. Tribal courts struggle with state and federal courts for jurisdiction. David E. Wilkins and K. Tsianina Lomawaima discuss how the political rights and sovereign status of Indian nations have variously been respected, ignored, terminated, and unilaterally modified by federal lawmakers as a result of the ambivalent political and legal status of tribes under western law.

147 citations

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06 Oct 2015
TL;DR: In this article, a deep ethnography of Guadeloupean labor activism is used to examine how Caribbean political actors navigate the conflicting norms and desires produced by the modernist project of postcolonial sovereignty.
Abstract: As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions-or even paradoxes-in our current postcolonial era. In Non-Sovereign Futures, Yarimar Bonilla wrestles with the conceptual arsenal of political modernity-challenging contemporary notions of freedom, sovereignty, nationalism, and revolution-in order to recast Guadeloupe not as a problematically non-sovereign site but as a place that can unsettle how we think of sovereignty itself. Through a deep ethnography of Guadeloupean labor activism, Bonilla examines how Caribbean political actors navigate the conflicting norms and desires produced by the modernist project of postcolonial sovereignty. Exploring the political and historical imaginaries of activist communities, she examines their attempts to forge new visions for the future by reconfiguring narratives of the past, especially the histories of colonialism and slavery. Drawing from nearly a decade of ethnographic research, she shows that political participation-even in failed movements-has social impacts beyond simple material or economic gains. Ultimately, she uses the cases of Guadeloupe and the Caribbean at large to offer a more sophisticated conception of the possibilities of sovereignty in the postcolonial era.

146 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
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20231,775
20223,691
2021802
20201,086
20191,042