Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Sovereign

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Sovereign 1
6. 1. Sovereignty in the Skies: An Anthropology of Everyday Aeropolitics 19
7. 2. Sovereignty as Generator of Inconsistent State Desire in Northeastern Central African Republic 44
8. 3. “Because I Have a Hookup”: Cheating Citizens and the Unbearable State in Post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina 65
9. 4. Aspirational Sovereignty and Human Rights Advocacy: Audience, Recognition, and the Reach of the Taiwan 89
10. 5. Gender, Violence, and Competing Sovereign Claims in Afghanistan 114
11. 6. Everyday Sovereignty in Exile: People, Territory, and Resources among Sahrawi Refugees 134
12. 7. Existential Sovereignty: Latvian People, Their State, and the Problem of Mobility 154
13. 8. Sovereign Days: Imagining and Making the Catalan Republic from Below 175
14. 9. The False Promises of Sovereignty: Enclaves, Exclaves, and Impossible Politics in the Jewish State 197
15. 10. Signs of Sovereignty: Mapping and Countermapping at an “Unwritten” Border 217
16. Epilogue: The Ironies of Misrecognition 240
17. Contributors 253
18. Index 255