ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the concept of sovereignty, argues that sovereign political power is one of the vital regimes to the development of post-politics. It explores sovereignty by mapping its relation to contemporary society. The chapter argues that sovereignty can be examines in a similar fashion to territory through contingency. Whereas sovereign power wants to completely enforce its own territory, it wants to assert the cruel contingency of sovereignty over territory elsewhere. Contingent sovereignty does not seek to simply acquire the whole territory but only to create grey zones or zones of indistinction and facilitate capital flows and access underground sources. In this, modern sovereignty is looking to preserve its own position while at the same time expanding capital flows in order to support the neoliberal economic order. This also explains the relation between mobility and immobility. Whereas some are literally arrested and legally abandoned through spaces of sovereign exceptionalism, others enjoy limitless mobility.
