Imagined Sovereignties

Imagined Sovereignties
Author: Kevin Olson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107113237

Imagined Sovereignties provokes new ways of imagining popular politics by critically examining the idea of 'the power of the people'.

Imagined Sovereignties

Imagined Sovereignties
Author: Kir Kuiken
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 082325769X

Imagined Sovereignties argues that the Romantics reconceived not just the nature of aesthetic imagination but also the conditions in which a specific form of political sovereignty could be realized through it. Articulating the link between the poetic imagination and secularized sovereignty requires more than simply replacing God with the subjective imagination and thereby ratifying the bourgeois liberal subject. Through close readings of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Shelley, the author elucidates how Romanticism’s reassertion of poetic power in place of the divine sovereign articulates an alternative understanding of secularization in forms of sovereignty that are no longer modeled on transcendence, divine or human. These readings ask us to reexamine not only the political significance of Romanticism but also its place within the development of modern politics. Certain aspects of Romanticism still provide an important resource for rethinking the limits of the political in our own time. This book will be a crucial source for those interested in the political legacy of Romanticism, as well as for anyone concerned with critical theoretical approaches to politics in the present.

Imagined Sovereignties

Imagined Sovereignties
Author: Kir Kuiken
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2014
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780823257676

Imagined Sovereignties argues that the Romantics reconceived not just the nature of aesthetic imagination but also the conditions in which a specific form of political sovereignty could be realized through it. Articulating the link between the poetic imagination and secularized sovereignty requires more than simply replacing God with the subjective imagination and thereby ratifying the bourgeois liberal subject. Through close readings of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Shelley, the author elucidates how Romanticism's reassertion of poetic power in place of the divine sovereign articulates an alternative understanding of secularization in forms of sovereignty that are no longer modeled on transcendence, divine or human. These readings ask us to reexamine not only the political significance of Romanticism but also its place within the development of modern politics. Certain aspects of Romanticism still provide an important resource for rethinking the limits of the political in our own time. This book will be a crucial source for those interested in the political legacy of Romanticism, as well as for anyone concerned with critical theoretical approaches to politics in the present.

Vernacular Sovereignties

Vernacular Sovereignties
Author: Manuela Lavinas Picq
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0816537356

"Shows how Indigenous women are important political agents in reshaping state sovereignty"--Provided by publisher.

‘The Mortal God'

‘The Mortal God'
Author: Milinda Banerjee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 110716656X

This work explores how colonial India imagined human and divine figures to battle the nature and locus of sovereignty.

Imagined Regional Communities

Imagined Regional Communities
Author: James D. Sidaway
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0415183472

Imagined Regional Communities provides an original approach to thinking about the processes of regional integration. Focusing mostly on communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, it develops detailed case studies based on archives, interviews and critical readings of existing texts. These case-studies are related to each other and the overall themes of the book, so that a set of narratives and theoretical elaborations emerge, that critically reformulate understandings of regional communities, statehold and sovereignty.

The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty

The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty
Author: Rebecca Bryant
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2021-06-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1501755765

Around the world, border walls and nationalisms are on the rise as people express the desire to "take back" sovereignty. The contributors to this collection use ethnographic research in disputed and exceptional places to study sovereignty claims from the ground up. While it might immediately seem that citizens desire a stronger state, the cases of compromised, contested, or failed sovereignty in this volume point instead to political imaginations beyond the state form. Examples from Spain to Afghanistan and from Western Sahara to Taiwan show how calls to take back control or to bring back order are best understood as longings for sovereign agency. By paying close ethnographic attention to these desires and their consequences, The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty offers a new way to understand why these yearnings have such profound political resonance in a globally interconnected world. Contributors: Panos Achniotis, Jens Bartelson, Joyce Dalsheim, Dace Dzenovska, Sara L. Friedman, Azra Hromadžić, Louisa Lombard, Alice Wilson, and Torunn Wimpelmann.

Sovereignty as Symbolic Form

Sovereignty as Symbolic Form
Author: Jens Bartelson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2014-05-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317685830

This book is a critical inquiry into sovereignty and argues that the meaning and functions performed by this concept have changed significantly during the past decades, with profound implications for the ontological status of the state and the modus operandi of the international system as a whole. Although we have grown accustomed to regarding sovereignty as a defining characteristic of the modern state and as a constitutive principle of the international system, Sovereignty as Symbolic Form argues that recent changes indicate that sovereignty has been turned into something granted, contingent upon its responsible exercise in accordance with the norms and values of an imagined international community. Hence we need a new understanding of sovereignty in order to clarify the logic of its current usage in theory and practice alike, and its connection to broader concerns of social ontology: what kind of world do we inhabit, and of what kind of entities is this world composed? This book will be of interest to students of International Relations, Critical Security and International Politics.

Sovereignty, Inc.

Sovereignty, Inc.
Author: William Mazzarella
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2019-12-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 022666841X

What does the name Trump stand for? If branding now rules over the production of value, as the coauthors of Sovereignty, Inc. argue, then Trump assumes the status of a master brand whose primary activity is the compulsive work of self-branding—such is the new sovereignty business in which, whether one belongs to his base or not, we are all “incorporated.” Drawing on anthropology, political theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and theater, William Mazzarella, Eric L. Santner, and Aaron Schuster show how politics in the age of Trump functions by mobilizing a contradictory and convoluted enjoyment, an explosive mixture of drives and fantasies that eludes existing portraits of our era. The current political moment turns out to be not so much exceptional as exceptionally revealing of the constitutive tension between enjoyment and economy that has always been a key component of the social order. Santner analyzes the collective dream-work that sustains a new sort of authoritarian charisma or mana, a mana-facturing process that keeps us riveted to an excessively carnal incorporation of sovereignty. Mazzarella examines the contemporary merger of consumer brand and political brand and the cross-contamination of politics and economics, warning against all too easy laments about the corruption of politics by marketing. Schuster, focusing on the extreme theatricality and self-satirical comedy of the present, shows how authority reasserts itself at the very moment of distrust and disillusionment in the system, profiting off its supposed decline. A dazzling diagnostic of our present, Sovereignty, Inc., forces us to come to terms with our complicity in Trump’s political presence and will immediately take its place in discussions of contemporary politics.

The World Imagined

The World Imagined
Author: Hendrik Spruyt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2020-07-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108491219

Spruyt takes an inter-disciplinary approach to explain how collective belief systems organized three non-European societies c.1500-1900, and how these polities engaged the European colonial powers.