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Book SynopsisThe contributors to
Sovereignty Unhinged theorize sovereignty beyond the typical understandings of action, control, and the nation-state, considering it from the perspective of how it is lived and enacted in everyday practice and how it reflects people’s aspirations for new futures.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction. Feeling Unhinged / Joseph Masco and Deborah A. Thomas 1
Part I. Capture/Escape
1. Love and Disgust: Sovereignty Struggles in Egypt’s Uprising / Jessica Winegar 27
2. Tasting Sovereignty: Love and Revolution in Peru / María Elena García 45
3. Death and Disavowal / Deborah A. Thomas 71
4. Pandemic Déjà Vu / Yarimar Bonilla 88
Interlude I. Wading in the Thick: A Sovereign Encounter through Collage / Leniqueca A. Welcome 96
Part II. Breaking/Making
5. Affective Sovereignties: Mobility, Emplacement, Potentiality / Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta 113
6. Sovereign Interdependencies / Jessica Cattelino 139
7. Moral Economies, Developmentalist Sovereignty, and Affective Strain / Arjun Shankar 162
8. The Slaughterhouse after Surplus Value / Alex Blanchette 185
Interlude 2. The Lung Is a Bird and a Fish / Lochlann Jain 211
Part III. Exclusion/Embrace
9. i was dreaming when i wrote this: a mixtape for America / Kristen L. Simmons and Kaya Naomi Williams 241
10. The Sovereignty of Vulnerability / Danilyn Rutherford 263
11. The Condition of Our Condition / Joseph Masco 277
Afterword / Michael Ralph 297
References 307
Contributors 333
Index 339
