The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty: Political Imagination beyond the State

Reviews Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, Indiana University, author of No Path Home: "This is a useful and important book that uses fragile states as a lens to examine the notion of sovereignty. The contributors to the volume show the many ways in which sovereignty is produced not only at the national scale but at the transnational and local scales." Katherine Verdery, City University of New York, author of My Life as a Spy: "The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty is a significant theoretical and empirical contribution to anthropology, sociology, and political studies concerning 'sovereignty.' In the era of globalization, that concept is increasingly challenged as the shortcomings of what the contributors refer to as the Westphalian view of sovereignty become ever more glaringly apparent."