... often protest vigorously. Indeed, the desire for stateness coexists with a value of liberty, or freedom from molestation in one's projects, which is a local manifestation of a project for sovereign agency. The chapter then considers how sovereign agency can generate or exacerbate states of inconsistency...

... to increase its sovereign power over contested territory and religious sites, the other rejecting such sovereignty. Both cases raise questions about the possibility of emancipation and the meaning of self-determination, which in turn suggests that the “who” of sovereign agency is never obvious, and always...

... practices that produce stateness, the effect of sovereignty, and a sense of sovereign agency. Investigating the national airline of an unrecognized state also shows the role played by national airlines in producing belief in the state — or calling it into question in an era of privatization...

... an intersubjective and an emphatically individualist ideal in this sense. The promise it holds is one that Americans cannot refuse, for it is the American promise, long delayed, of a freedom that really is for all. collective world making non domination non interference non sovereign agency basic conception...

... remembrance victim s dispossession Navaro Yashin Yael solidarity stasis positivity negativity dualism borders agonism aporia re-membering the political im/possible mourning non-sovereign agency vulnerability Throughout the pages of this book, I have been concerned with the performative power...

... ultimately embraces the perpetual present of ‘redoing’ this ‘undoing’ vis-à-vis repetitive disasters. This reinforced reaffirmation of sovereign agency underlies the transhuman ideology found in many post–Source Code films. biopolitics catastrophe Elsaesser Thomas Fight Club 1999 mind...

... as longings for sovereign agency. By paying close ethnographic attention to these desires and their consequences, the book offers a new way to understand why these yearnings have such profound political resonance in a globally interconnected world....

...This chapter looks at three recent attempts to construct or shape state interventions into gender violence to demonstrate how sovereign agency operating through the Afghan state apparatus cannot be reduced to that apparatus. Instead, it shows how such agency can be — simultaneously — globally...

...This epilogue suggests that the desire for sovereign agency and recognition are by no means innocent aspirations, since the quest for sovereign agency often tends to circumscribe the autonomy of other actors thereby making it difficult to sustain equality among them. Indeed, the desire...

...This chapter proposes a sovereign agency theory for reunifying the law of armed conflict (LOAC) in counterinsurgency operations. It begins with an overview of the current paradigm of LOAC applicability based on conflict characterization, including a historical background on the bifurcation...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of sovereign agency. Sovereign agency denotes the variety of practices, strategies, and future-oriented claims that constitute institution and subject in ways that make the latter politically recognizable and capable of agentive action. In this sense...

...This chapter evaluates complex and seemingly contradictory cheating discourses and practices as a lens through which to approach youth's enactments and performances of sovereign agency and (anti-)citizenship in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Cheating practices and discourses should be interpreted as twofold...

... transform political theology into a feminist politics in which performing objects—Lavinia’s body and Hermione’s statue—evoke the phenomenon of non-sovereign agency that limits sovereign absolutism and enables fugitive politics in Shakespeare. agency Grosz Elizabeth Krause Sharon sovereignty Titus...