... this time under the very different timespace idioms of capitalist “market integration.” That is, when the very grounds of communal sovereignty and fortune are at stake, hospitality spectacles, like those of Maoist work teams offering free medical care or welfare gifts in the early 1950s ( Weiner 2012...

... through lyric countersovereignty, while the epic-romance overthrows various Petrarchan Beloveds through its narrative teleology. By delegitimizing their Beloveds' sovereignty, both texts open up the possibility of lyric resistance to tyranny. They also share highly specific imagery in their portrayals...

... during the genocide in varied ways. In Kayove, unique local histories of political authority, migration, and religion merged with its mountainous topography, its remoteness, Lake Kivu, and the border to produce distinct patterns of engagement with the state's genocidal sovereignty. The chapter talks...

... were acceptable fare. Decapitation was the only image to be banned from peak viewing hours, as if executions conducted by decapitation possessed an extra sprinkling of the macabre that transformed death into an obscene sight. The chapter discusses the death penalty as a phenomenon of sovereignty...

.... And as mascots of imperialism, balloons demonstrated sovereignty over Native Americans. aerostatics air balloons Blanchard Pierre Europe France balloon launches in Jeffries John Montgolfier Jacques Étienne and Joseph Michel Philadelphia Rush Benjamin Adams Abigail Adams John Bache Benjamin Franklin...

... the sense of possible means to that conclusion. The chapter tackles how infrastructure materialized inequality and built scaffolding for new futures. Additionally, rescaling sovereignty had been affected in line with the transpacific exchanges. However, the PRC is still not trusted in Central America...

.... It presents the concept of “adjacent sovereignty” to suggest that forms of policing that are elaborated through state institutions in fact derive much of their force through forms of local, even familial, sovereignty that operate in this borderland. Through a focus on forms of policing that play out...

... voice, of political legibility, of political order — and a yearning to regain it. This book situates sovereign agency at the foreground of anthropological inquiry. Who or what is the locus of political imagination in claims to “take back control?” What does sovereignty look like from the ground up...

...This chapter examines sovereignty as a set of social relations explored through the case of the Sahrawi refugee camps. Full territorial sovereignty as desired by the refugees is absent in this setting; nevertheless, the various governance activities suggest that the social relations of sovereignty...

... flexible interpretation—or “misunderstanding”—of modern sovereignty. They had deemed Japan a “civilizing” and “reformist” empire and anticipated Japan's support to create favorable conditions for the group's own reform projects. Yet there were drawbacks to the Ilchinhoe's actions that ultimately frustrated...

...This chapter examines Teiresias's attempt to convince Pentheus to accept Dionysism. In the first part of his appeal to Pentheus, before the king orders his men to destroy Teiresias's religious seat, Teiresias says: “Come on, Pentheus, believe me, do not be too confident that sovereignty rules men...

..., it sought to demonstrate how conflicts over the sources of sovereignty and definitions of citizenship pushed France back onto the colonial stage after the imperial collapse of the eighteenth century. While the cultural origins of French Algeria certainly had a great deal to do with nationalism, grandeur...

...This chapter explores byzantine universalism. Byzantium’s universalist theologians devised a Christian system in which all postmortem punishment might be temporary. However, emperors deliberately assimilated their own sovereignty to God’s and assumed, as a vital corollary, the possibility...

... pollution and other environmental risks. There are many approaches to addressing injustice, including food sovereignty, political mobilization, and climate justice. The chapter first provides a brief history of the environmental justice movement before presenting three case studies illustrating educational...

... regarding republican declarations of sovereignty and the right of the republics to secede from Russia. It also discusses the explanations of nationalist mobilization in the post-Soviet politics literature on secessionism in terms of both their logic and their empirical predictions. These arguments...

... motivated by the prospect of future wealth to mobilize behind a program of national sovereignty. People supported nationalism only in those republics where nationalist leaders framed issues of ethnic economic inequality. ethnic entrepreneurs ethnic groups issue framing nationalist entrepreneurs...

... of global slave markets throughout the Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean. The rest remained within New England households to work, as auctions distributed them to households all over the region. The war also cemented English sovereignty in southern New England. In the 1650s...

...This chapter examines how George Washington's presence—as a person, a leader, an icon, and the country's first president—complicated both the question of a presidential title and interpretations of the place of the presidency within a government based on popular sovereignty. More specifically...

... relationship to the vice presidency, and the expansion and consolidation of executive power within the limits placed on the president under popular sovereignty. Antifederalists —types of Constitution elective king fear of monarchy monarchical sovereignty presidency —controversy —specific titles...

... protests rebellions secessionist movements terrorism states societies international law sovereignty state leaders international security state authority system of states governed population There are roughly 195 states in the world today. It is impossible to give a more precise number, because...