Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. RACE, LAW, AND CITIZENSHIP
7. Territorializing the Nation and “Integrating the Indian”: “Mestizaje” in Mexican Official Discourses and Public Culture 39
8. Violence, Sovereignty, and Citizenship in Postcolonial Peru 61
9. Sovereign Violence and the Domain of the Political 82
10. Death, Anxiety, and Rituals of State
11. Confinement and the Imagination: Sovereignty and Subjectivity in a Quasi-State 103
12. Naturing the Nation: Aliens, Apocalypse, and the Postcolonial State 120
13. Sovereignty as a Form of Expenditure 148
14. BODY, LOCALITY, AND INFORMAL SOVEREIGNTY
15. Sovereigns beyond the State: On Legality and Authority in Urban India 169
16. The Sovereign Outsourced: Local Justice and Violence in Port Elizabeth 192
17. Above the Law: Practices of Sovereignty in Surrey Estate, Cape Town 218
18. POSTCOLONIAL CITIZENSHIP IN THE EMPIRE
19. Citizenship and Empire 241
20. Splintering Cosmopolitanism: Asian Immigrants and Zones of Autonomy in the American West 257
21. Virtual India: Indian IT Labor and the Nation-State 276
22. Inside Out: The Reorganization of National Identity in Norway 291
23. Suspended Spaces–Contesting Sovereignties in a Refugee Camp 312
24. Bibliography 333
25. Index 363