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Voluminous States
Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Territorial Imagination
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Edited by:
Franck Billé
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Afterword by:
Debbora Battaglia
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English
Published/Copyright:
2020
About this book
Conceiving of sovereign space as volume rather than area, the contributors to Voluminous States explore how such a conception reveals and underscores the three-dimensional nature of modern territorial governance.
Author / Editor information
Franck Billé is Program Director of the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Sinophobia: Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity and coeditor of Yellow Perils: China Narratives in the Contemporary World.
Debbora Battaglia is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College and editor of E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces.
Debbora Battaglia is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College and editor of E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces.
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“Responding to the changing ways in which states are colonizing previously inconceivable dimensions of life and livelihood in the ever-reinvented interests of territorial sovereignty, Voluminous States tackles real-life issues of state control. With its specific focus on three-dimensional space as itself a materiality as well as a force in political conceptions and social analysis, it will be welcomed by scholars interested in climate change, sustainability, sovereignty, territoriality, and beyond. This volume sparks the imagination.”
-- Marilyn Strathern, author of Relations: An Anthropological Account
“Taking materiality and dimensionality seriously in thinking about geopolitics, Voluminous States is likely to become a standard reference in developing debates in human geography, political theory, international relations, and anthropology. Global in reach, this is a great project that is executed extremely well.”
-- Stuart Elden, author of Shakespearean Territories
“[Voluminous States] provides a highly nuanced and textured examination of the tensions between the state’s intrusive attempts to flatten, homogenize, and control space.... Wide ranging studies lend this volume conceptual richness, social and cultural texture, and geographical diversity.... The book never fails to sustain the readers’ interest.”
-- Martin T. Fromm Environment, Space, Place
"The essays in Voluminous States are a landmark contribution to the anthropology of the state that needs to be urgently read not only by political anthropologists/geographers or anthropologists of space, but also by anyone interested in understanding our perilous world."
-- Christos Lynteris Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
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Voluminous
1 - Sovereignty
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1 Warren
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2 Tunnel
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3 Spoofing
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4 Lag
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5 Traffic
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6 Fissure
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7 Downwind
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8 Necrotone
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9 Surface
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10 Gravity
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11 Geometries
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12 Buoyancy
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13 Seepage
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14 Jigsaw
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15 Echolocation
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Beyond
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Bibliography
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Contributors
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Index
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July 24, 2020
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9781478012061
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304
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