ABSTRACT

For International Relations scholars, discussions of globalization inevitably turn to questions of sovereignty. How much control does a country have over its borders, people and economy? Where does that authority come from? Sovereign Lives explores these changes through reading of humanitarian intervention, human rights discourses, securitization, refugees, the fragmentation of identities and the practices of development.

chapter |21 pages

Introduction

Life, Power, Resistance

chapter |18 pages

Time for Politics

chapter |24 pages

“The Nation-State and Violence” *

Wim Wenders Contra Imperial Sovereignty

chapter |16 pages

Killing Canadians

The International Politics of Capital Punishment

chapter |23 pages

Creating/Negotiating Interstices

Indigenous Sovereignties

chapter |22 pages

Ebola Takes to the Road

Mobilizing Viruses in Defense of the Nation-State

chapter |28 pages

“In Search of Agency ”

Beyond the “Old/New” Biopolitics of Sovereignty in Bosnia 1

chapter |11 pages

Conclusion

Sovereignties, Exceptions, Worlds