The Subject of Sovereignty

Gregory Feldman is a political anthropologist at the University of Windsor. He is the author of three books including the The Gray Zone: Sovereignty, Human Smuggling, and Undercover Police Investigation in Europe (Stanford University Press, 2019); We Are All Migrants: Political Action and the Ubiquitous Condition of Migrant-Hood (Stanford Briefs, 2015); The Migration Apparatus: Security, Labor, and Policymaking in the European Union (Stanford University Press, 2011).

Preface

Acknowledgments



Introduction: Sovereignty’s Janus Face: Denying or Acknowledging Relationality



Chapter 1. Human/Nature:How the Rise of the Liberal Subject Impoverished Our Understanding of Relationality

Chapter 2. The Pathetic Oppressor: the Insanity of Sovereignty in a Racist World

Chapter 3. Sovereign Fusions: The Reduction to “Man” and Its Phenomenological Alternatives

Chapter 4. Extra/Ordinary Action: The Divine-Like Element in Relational Sovereignty



Conclusion: From Rethinking the Political to Rethinking Sovereignty



References

Endnotes