Indigeneity and Political Theory : Sovereignty and the Limits of the Political

ISBN-13: 9780415777001 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 247 str.

Shaw Karena; Karena Shaw

Opis

This critical reassessment of sovereignty in political theory disputes assumptions that challenges posed by indigenous politics are marginal to contemporary political theory, instead, the author argues, new ways of doing political theory must be found that recognise their centrality.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Problem of the Political  Part 1: Sovereignty and the Political  2. Hobbes: Producing Politics/Effacing Interrogation  3. Violences of Sovereignty: The "Regrettable Necessity" of Civilization  4. Sovereignty and Disciplinarity  Part 2: Negotiating the Limits of the Political  5. Resistance: Negotiating the Interstices of Sovereignty  6. Adjudication: Paradoxes of Law and Sovereignty  7. Limits: James Tully and the Politics of Theory  Part 3: Emerging Politicizations  8. Rethinking Sovereignty: Deleuze and Guattari  9. Rethinking Indigeneity: Remapping the Political  10. Conclusions: Leviathan’s Angels and the Future of Political Theory.  Bibliography

O autorze

Karena Shaw is Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada. A political theorist by training, she is particularly interested in how a range of contemporary political challenges—such as those raised by indigenous, feminist and environmental movements—are reshaping political space and possibility.