Sovereign bodies citizens, migrants, and states in the postcolonial world

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-362) and index.

Territorializing the nation and "integrating the Indian": "Mestizaje" in Mexican official discourses and public culture / Ana Maria Alonso -- Violence, sovereignty, and citizenship in postcolonial Peru / Finn Stepputat -- Sovereign violence and the domain of the political / Partha Chatterjee -- Confinement in the imagination: sovereignty and subjectivity in a quasi-state / Yael Navaro-Yashin -- Naturing the nation: aliens, apocalypse, and the postcolonial state / Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff -- Sovereignty as a form of expenditure / Achille Mbembe -- Sovereigns beyond the state: on legality and authority in urban India / Thomas Blom Hansen -- The sovereign outsourced: local justice and violence in Port Elizabeth / Lars Buur -- Above the law: practices of sovereignty in Surrey Estate, Cape Town / Steffen Jensen -- Citizenship and empire / Barry Hindess -- Splintering cosmopolitanism: Asian immigrants and zones of autonomy in the American west / Aihwa Ong -- Virtual India: Indian IT labor and the nation-state / Peter van der Veer -- Inside out: the reorganization of national identity in Norway / Oivind Fuglerud -- Suspended spaces--contesting sovereignties in a refugee camp / Simon Turner.