Liminal Sovereignty

Liminal Sovereignty
Author: Rebecca Janzen
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2018-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1438471033

Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation. Liminal Sovereignty examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture. Mennonites emigrated from Canada to Mexico from the 1920s to the 1940s, and Mormons emigrated from the United States in the 1880s, left in 1912, and returned in the 1920s. Rebecca Janzen focuses on representations of these groups in film, television, online comics, photography, and legal documents. Janzen argues that perceptions of Mennonites and Mormons—groups on the margins and borders of Mexican society—illustrate broader trends in Mexican history. The government granted both communities significant exceptions to national laws to encourage them to immigrate; she argues that these foreshadow what is today called the Mexican state of exception. The groups’ inclusion into the Mexican nation shows that post-Revolutionary Mexico was flexible with its central tenets of land reform and building a mestizo race. Janzen uses minority communities at the periphery to give us a new understanding of the Mexican nation. “This subject matter has never been studied in this fashion before, nor with such theoretical sophistication. Not only is the book compelling, but it’s also illuminating.” — Pedro A. Palou, Tufts University

Liminal Sovereignty

Liminal Sovereignty
Author: Rebecca Janzen
Publisher: Suny Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Christianity and politics
ISBN: 9781438471020

Uses cultural representations to investigate how two religious minority communities came to be incorporated into the Mexican nation.

Liminal Borderlands in Irish Literature and Culture

Liminal Borderlands in Irish Literature and Culture
Author: Irene Gilsenan Nordin
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2009
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783039118595

This collection of essays examines the theme of liminality in Irish literature and culture against the philosophical discourse of modernity and focuses on representations of liminality in contemporary Irish literature, art and film in a variety of contexts.

Sovereignty, Emergency, Legality

Sovereignty, Emergency, Legality
Author: Austin Sarat
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2010-02-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1139483773

It is widely recognized that times of national emergency put legality to its greatest test. In such times we rely on sovereign power to rescue us, to hold the danger at bay. Yet that power can and often does threaten the values of legality itself. Sovereignty, Emergency, Legality examines law's complex relationship to sovereign power and emergency conditions. It puts today's responses to emergency in historical and institutional context, reminding readers of the continuities and discontinuities in the ways emergencies are framed and understood at different times and in different situations. And, in all this, it suggests the need to be less abstract in the way we discuss sovereignty, emergency, and legality. This book concentrates on officials and the choices they make in defining, anticipating, and responding to conditions of emergency as well as the impact of their choices on embodied subjects, whether citizen or stranger.

Islam, Law and Identity

Islam, Law and Identity
Author: Marinos Diamantides
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2011-08-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1136675655

Islam, Law and Identity brings together a range of Muslim and non Muslim scholars in order to focus on recent debates about the nature of sacred and secular law.

Wild Music

Wild Music
Author: Maria Sonevytsky
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0819579173

Recipient of the 2020 Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society What are the uses of musical exoticism? In Wild Music, Maria Sonevytsky tracks vernacular Ukrainian discourses of "wildness" as they manifested in popular music during a volatile decade of Ukrainian political history bracketed by two revolutions. From the Eurovision Song Contest to reality TV, from Indigenous radio to the revolution stage, Sonevytsky assesses how these practices exhibit and re-imagine Ukrainian tradition and culture. As the rise of global populism forces us to confront the category of state sovereignty anew, Sonevytsky proposes innovative paradigms for thinking through the creative practices that constitute sovereignty, citizenship, and nationalism.

Theory of Irregular War

Theory of Irregular War
Author: Jonathan W. Hackett
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2023-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 147665154X

From Afghanistan to Angola, Indonesia to Iran, and Colombia to Congo, violent reactions erupt, states collapse, and militaries relentlessly pursue operations doomed to fail. And yet, no useful theory exists to explain this common tragedy. All over the world, people and states clash violently outside their established political systems, as unfulfilled demands of control and productivity bend the modern state to a breaking point. This book lays out how dysfunctional governments disrupt social orders, make territory insecure, and interfere with political-economic institutions. These give rise to a form of organized violence against the state known as irregular war. Research reveals why this frequent phenomenon is so poorly understood among conventional forces in those conflicts and the states who send their children to die in them.

A Theory of De Facto States

A Theory of De Facto States
Author: Lucas Knotter
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2023-12-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1003822738

A Theory of De Facto States offers a new perspective on the phenomenon of de facto states — political communities that manifest forms of statehood in international politics but lack international legal recognition — zooming in on two prominent examples, Somaliland and Kosovo. Employing a thorough understanding of classical realist theories of international relations, this book provides a fresh critique of the common ways in which existing research tends to identify the ostensible state features of these communities. In contrast to the prevalent portrayals of such features in terms of international legal, discursive, and/or everyday logics, this book argues that de facto states can be most fundamentally characterised as exceptional polities in international relations. Showcasing how the statehood and sovereignty of de facto states is based in international political crises, this book concludes that these entities function as recurring disruptions of any supposed international political order. A Theory of De Facto States will therefore be of interest to researchers of secession, de facto statehood, and International Relations theory alike.

Agamben and Colonialism

Agamben and Colonialism
Author: Marcelo Svirsky
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012-05-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0748649263

This collection of essays evaluates Agamben's work from a postcolonial perspective. Svirsky and Bignall assemble leading figures to explore the rich philosophical linkages and the political concerns shared by Agamben and postcolonial theory.

Humanitarians on the Frontier

Humanitarians on the Frontier
Author: Alasdair Gordon-Gibson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2021-11-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1538151049

The book examines the reasons behind accusations of dysfunctional humanitarian identities and the loss of space for impartial action. Through a combination of practical examples in case studies from the field with a theoretical and philosophical approach to questions of voluntary service, community and identity, it reconsiders the exceptional discourse that constructs these identities and drives humanitarian response in environments of complex emergency. By recognizing both the strength and the limits of its social and political agency, the study presents opportunities for the construction of a less exceptional space, or ‘niche’ within the humanitarian sector, where the politics is around one of an ordinary humanitarian society instead of an ordered humanitarian system.