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From the Arctic to the South China Sea, states are vying to secure
sovereign rights over vast maritime stretches, undersea continental
plates, shifting ice flows, airspace, and the subsoil. Conceiving
of sovereign space as volume rather than area, the contributors to
Voluminous States explore how such a conception reveals and
underscores the three-dimensional nature of modern territorial
governance. In case studies ranging from the United States, Europe,
and the Himalayas to Hong Kong, Korea, and Bangladesh, the
contributors outline how states are using airspace surveillance,
maritime patrols, and subterranean monitoring to gain and exercise
sovereignty over three-dimensional space. Whether examining how
militaries are digging tunnels to create new theaters of
operations, the impacts of climate change on borders, or the
relation between borders and nonhuman ecologies, they demonstrate
that a three-dimensional approach to studying borders is imperative
for gaining a fuller understanding of sovereignty. Contributors.
Debbora Battaglia, Franck Bille, Wayne Chambliss, Jason Cons,
Hilary Cunningham (Scharper), Klaus Dodds, Elizabeth Cullen Dunn,
Gaston Gordillo, Sarah Green, Tina Harris, Caroline Humphrey,
Marcel LaFlamme, Lisa Sang Mi Min, Aihwa Ong, Clancy Wilmott, Jerry
Zee
Sabarl island--created, in myth, from the bones of a serpent--is a
coral atoll in the Louisiade archipelago of Papua New Guinea. The
Sabarl speak of themselves as true islanders: persons separated
from the means of both physical and social survival. The Sabarl
struggle for continuity--of the physical and social person and of
social relations, of cultureal values, of paternal influence in a
matrilineal society--is the subject of Debbora Battaglia's
sensitive ethnography of loss and reconstruction: the first major
work on cultural responses to mortality in the southern Massim
culture area and an important contribution to studies of personhood
in Melanesia. The creative focus of Sabarl cultural life is a
series of mortuary feasts and rituals known as segaiya. In
assembling and disassembling commemorative food and objects in
segaiya exchanges, Sabarl also assemble and disassemble the
critical social relations such objects stand for. These
commemorative acts create a collective memory yet also a collective
experience of forgetting social bonds that are of no future use to
the living. Sabarl anticipate this disaggregation in patterns of
everyday life, which reveal the importance of categorical
distinctions mapped in beliefs about the physical and metaphysical
person. Using remembrance and forgetting as an analytic lens,
Battaglia is able to ask questions critical to understanding
Melanesian social process. One of the new ethnographies addressing
the limits of ethnographic representation and the fragmented nature
of knowledge from an indigenous perspective, her finely wrought
study explores the dynamics of cultural practices in which
decontruction is integral to construction, allowing a new
perspective on the ephermeral nature of sociality in Melanesia and
new insight into the efficacy of cultural images more generally.
From the Arctic to the South China Sea, states are vying to secure
sovereign rights over vast maritime stretches, undersea continental
plates, shifting ice flows, airspace, and the subsoil. Conceiving
of sovereign space as volume rather than area, the contributors to
Voluminous States explore how such a conception reveals and
underscores the three-dimensional nature of modern territorial
governance. In case studies ranging from the United States, Europe,
and the Himalayas to Hong Kong, Korea, and Bangladesh, the
contributors outline how states are using airspace surveillance,
maritime patrols, and subterranean monitoring to gain and exercise
sovereignty over three-dimensional space. Whether examining how
militaries are digging tunnels to create new theaters of
operations, the impacts of climate change on borders, or the
relation between borders and nonhuman ecologies, they demonstrate
that a three-dimensional approach to studying borders is imperative
for gaining a fuller understanding of sovereignty. Contributors.
Debbora Battaglia, Franck Bille, Wayne Chambliss, Jason Cons,
Hilary Cunningham (Scharper), Klaus Dodds, Elizabeth Cullen Dunn,
Gaston Gordillo, Sarah Green, Tina Harris, Caroline Humphrey,
Marcel LaFlamme, Lisa Sang Mi Min, Aihwa Ong, Clancy Wilmott, Jerry
Zee
Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly
original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with
three contributions to the literature: First, it approaches the
self as an ideological process, arguing that selfhood is culturally
situated and emergent in social practices of persuasion. Second, it
demonstrates how postmodernity problematizes the experience and
concept of the self. Finally, the book challenges the pervasive
practice of equating an individuated self with the Western world
and a relational self with the non-Western world. Contributions
cover a broad range of topics--from the development of the
eccentric self to the ritual circumcision of Jewish males.
Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this volume
advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three
contributions to literature. First, it approaches the self as an
ideological process, arguing that selfhood is culturally situated
and emergent in social practices of persuasion. Second, it
demonstrates how postmodernity problematizes the experience and
concept of the self. Finally, the book challenges the pervasive
practice of equating an individuated self with the Western world
and a relational self with the non-Western world. Contributions
cover a broad range of topics - from the development of the
eccentric self to the ritual circumcision of Jewish males.
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