“After all, there is no exact definition of what is sovereignty.” —Prime Minister Clement Attlee, on merging sovereignty into a European federal structure, 5 May 1948 “Sovereignty is for us, as a generation, to make the best use of it we can
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Sovereignty versus Influence
European Unity and the Conceptualization of Sovereignty in British Parliamentary Debates, 1945–2016
Teemu Häkkinen and Miina Kaarkoski
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 54–78 (25 total)
Sovereignty, Prefigurative Politics, and Basques’ Joy to Decide
Julieta Gaztañaga
-determination, or what is locally debated as the people's ‘Right to Decide’ (RtD). GED has been recentering the old nationalist dilemma of independence as secessionism, separatism, or confederation in terms of the principle and praxis of ‘popular sovereignty’ with
No Sovereignty without Freedom
Machiavelli, Hobbes and the Global Order in the Twenty-first Century
Samuel Salzborn
In outlining a model of sovereignty, this article makes constructive reference to the ideas of Machiavelli and Hobbes concerning the fundamental structures of modern statehood, and ultimately argues for a sovereignty without morality – but not without restraints. A central element is the idea that in terms of legal theory, limitations on sovereignty should not come from some other context, but should instead be developed solely in reference to itself and its inherent contradictions: this could be the future of sovereignty.
Scratches on our sovereignty?
Analyzing conservation politics in the Sundarbans
Jayashree Vivekanandan
When the Brazilian diplomat Marcus Azambuja remarked, on emerging from the Rio Summit in 1992, that “we came out of the negotiations without the slightest scratch to our sovereignty,” he was articulating the view widely held by state leaders that
In Regions and Cohesion
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- Research Article
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- 1–20 (20 total)
Powers of sovereignty
State, people, wealth, life
Aihwa Ong
Hardt and Negri's trilogy describes an American Empire as shaping a world split between global capital and disenfranchised multitude, leading to a final confrontation between the Empire of capital and the counter-Empire of workers everywhere. However, their interpretation is limited by their philosophical abstraction and revolutionary vision, which fails to recognize the implications of actually existing processes of sovereignty and capital at this global juncture. The situation found in Asia challenges their analysis. In contemporary China, experimental assemblages of sovereign powers, capital, techne, and ethics have not weakened, but, in fact, have strengthened political sovereignty, nationalist sentiments, and collectivist ethos, presenting a different picture of biopolitics from that of Hardt and Negri's global theory. The authoritarian outcomes in China are political solutions forged in circumstances that mingle the global, the historical, and the situated. This article argues that Asian aspirations are rearranging capitalism and political sovereignty as Hardt and Negri understand them.
Color-Coded Sovereignty and the Men in Black
Private Security in a Bolivian Marketplace
Daniel M. Goldstein
The appearance of effective security making—demonstrated through surveillance, visibility, and ongoing performance—is significant to contemporary sovereign authority in urban spaces characterized by quotidian violence and crime. This article examines La Cancha, Cochabamba, Bolivia’s enormous outdoor market, which is policed not by the state but by private security firms that operate as nonstate sovereign actors in the space of the market. The article provides an ethnographic account of one of these firms (the Men in Black), and documents the work of both municipal and national police—all of them distinguished by differently colored uniforms—in the management of crime, administration of justice, and establishment of public order in the market. Sovereignty here is derived through public performance, both violent and nonviolent, through which the Men in Black demonstrate and maintain their sovereign power.
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2015
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- Research Article
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- 182–196 (15 total)
Assemblages of sovereignty and anti-sovereign effects on the Irish border
Lorenzo Cañás Bottos
Based on fieldwork undertaken in 2004–2005, I analyze how the Irish border has been constructed, represented, challenged, and imagined by both the state and borderlanders as a means to discuss processes of constructing sovereignty. I focus on the concept of “assemblage” to integrate and highlight the tensions and contradictions between different levels of analysis: the juridical, the academic representation of the border, and the memories and practices of borderlanders. I argue that sovereignty, rather than a claim to be taken at face value by states, is the emergent property of the combination of a variety of forces, forms, and practices involved in the making of borders, and that its very enactment also produces anti-sovereign effects.
How Far Can Chicken Feet Travel?
The Transgression of Contested Sovereign Borders and Chinese Women's E-entrepreneurship between Taiwan and China
Beatrice Zani and Isabelle Cockel
packaging, shipping, taxation, and quarantine that all traders have to grapple with, their e-entrepreneurship is also offset by the ongoing sovereignty dispute between Taiwan and China, for which the administration of border crossing is essential. Locked in
Women's Uprising in Poland
Embodied Claims between the Nation and Europe
Jennifer Ramme
is at stake as well its sovereignty as a state. In the last years multiple protests have been organised against this correlation of the nation with the female body, using creative appropriation of patriotic symbols with symbols of female body parts
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- Research Article
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- 90–93 (4 total)
Borderland of the Mind
The Free City of Danzig and the Sovereignty Question
Elizabeth M. Clark
distanced it from Poland. Even after the compromise had been in place for ten years, few experts, whether Polish, French or German, agreed on a legal description of the city, whether it was a sovereign state, a state without sovereignty, a state with limited
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Sep 2017
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- Research Article
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- 24–37 (14 total)