Critical beings : law, nation, and the global subject /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2004. |
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| Description: | xx, 226 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Law, justice, and power |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5151251 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I. Introversion
- 1. The Fiction of the State of Nature in Real Time: The Social Contract, International Human Rights and the Refugee
- 2. National Identity and Refugee Law
- 3. Refugees, Nations, Laws and the Territorialization of Violence
- 4. On Being, Nation and Citizenship in Sri Lanka: Going Beyond the Ontological Hermeneutic of the Buddhist Cosmos
- Part II. Extraversion
- 5. Making People Illegal
- 6. Constitutional (U) Topology: the (Dis) Appearance of Ireland
- 7. Terminal Legality? Human Rights and Critical Being
- 8. The Paradox of Human Rights
- Part III. Formation
- 9. Global Formations: IMF Conditionality and the South as Legal Subject
- 10. Ejecting an Inside: An Essay on the Politics of the Contemporary American Immigration State
- 11. Mapping Territories of Legality: An Exploratory Cartography of an Emerging Female Global Subject
- Index
