...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...

... 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...

... 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 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...