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Sovereignty : a global perspective / edited by Christopher Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Proceedings of the British Academy ; 253.
- British Academy scholarship online.
- Proceedings of the British Academy ; 253
- British Academy scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sovereignty.
- Sovereignty--History.
- Sovereignty--Philosophy.
- International relations.
- Self-determination, National.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 346 pages) : maps (colour).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Published for The British Library by Oxford University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- This volume brings the concept of sovereignty into a fresh light through a study of its long history and the realities of a globalised world.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- General Introduction
- Part I Ancient Sovereignty
- 1 On the Usability of the Concept of 'Sovereignty' for the Ancient World
- Prologue
- Questions, problems, premises
- Notions of sovereignty
- The sovereignty of an entity
- Sovereignty within an entity
- The state as a manager - not as a monopolist
- What is best called sovereignty? And what is best described otherwise?
- References
- 2 Actiones Populares, Popular Sovereignty, and the People
- Introduction
- The actiones populares
- The populus and popular sovereignty
- From citizens to people
- 3 Between Sovereignty and Non-Sovereignty: The maiestas populi Romani and Foundational Authority in the Roman Republic
- Maiestas as fictive entity
- Office: representing maiestas without possessing it
- Inviolability
- Inviolability and territorial integrity
- Inviolability and treason
- Protecting the framework
- The end of the Republic
- 4 The Invention of Imperial Sovereignty
- Against theological sovereignty
- The invention of the Augustan sovereign
- Against sovereignty
- 5 Forms and Narratives of Sovereignty in Early Imperial China: Beyond Heaven's Mandate, All-Under-Heaven, and So Forth
- 'The Mandate' and mandates, charismatic power and merit: sources of metahuman authority before and after imperial unification
- 'Mandates', omens, and patterns: stories of sovereignty after unification
- Final remarks
- Part II Imperial Sovereignty
- 6 Thinking with Sovereignty in Australia
- Writing about sovereignty/sovereign relations
- British colonial sovereignty
- International.
- Indigenous sovereignties
- Conduct of lawful relations
- Settler disavowals
- Kulin insistence
- 'Working through …'
- Conclusion
- 7 Scalar, Spectacular, and Subaltern Sovereignty: Colonial Autocracy, Democracy, and Interwar India
- South Asian sovereignty
- Supreme and popular Indian sovereignty
- Scale and the divisibility of sovereignty
- A violent and dazzling spectacle
- The subaltern
- The Round Table Conference
- A spectacular event
- Federation
- Subaltern voice?
- Part III Sovereign Technologies
- 8 Chinese World Order, Sovereignty, and International Practice
- Traditional Chinese World Order
- Xi Jinping and the practice of the Traditional Chinese World Order
- Chinese approaches to sovereignty
- Sovereignty, Chinese World Order, and territorial disputes
- South China Sea
- Taiwan
- 9 The Institution of Sovereignty in Central Asia
- The concept of sovereignty in IR
- Legal sovereignty in Central Asia
- Sovereignty, authoritarianism, and postcolonialism
- Conclusions
- 10 Contested Privatisation: On the State of Monetary Sovereignty in the Euro Zone
- What is monetary sovereignty?
- Territorial control over means of payment
- Autonomous monetary agency
- The modern money franchise
- Key features of modern monetary orders
- Elasticity spaces
- The euro zone experiment
- On a state's ability to pay
- A privatised foreign currency
- From the financial crisis to the COVID-19 crisis
- The financial crisis
- The COVID-19 crisis
- 11 Three Conceptions of Sovereignty in Contemporary Investment Law
- Sovereignty as control
- Sovereignty as eligibility to act on the world stage.
- Sovereignty as the capability to act on the world stage
- Part IV Sovereignty on the Edge
- 12 El Niño, Cholera, and the Productive Uncertainties of Water in Nairobi
- Introduction: flows and blockages, making cities and bodies
- Water as an index of power
- El Niño in Mathare4
- Contesting sovereignty and legitimacy in Mathare
- So what did El Niño do?
- 13 Hosts and Higher Powers: Asylum Requests and Sovereignty
- Territorialities of sovereignty
- Recognition
- Invocation
- Interdependence
- Interference
- 14 'The Definite Is the Shadow and not the Owner': Hannah Arendt in the Shadows of Sovereignty
- 'We Refugees'
- Baddawi Camp
- 15 Resonant Sovereignty? The Challenge of Social Acceleration - and the Prospect of an Alternative Conception
- Sovereignty and the mode of dynamic stabilisation
- Desynchronisation and the crisis of dynamic stabilisation
- Eco-crisis: the desynchronisation of nature
- Psycho-crisis: burnout and the desynchronisation of the subject
- Historical disconnection: the desynchronisation of past and future
- The broken promise of democratic sovereignty and the resonance conception of the common good
- Index.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-80596-088-1
- 1-80596-052-0
- 0-19-199174-0
- OCLC:
- 1389529262
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