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Walled states, waning sovereignty / (Record no. 29766)

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fixed length control field	02632cam a2200241 a 4500
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field	20160203135858.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field	100106s2010 nyua b 001 0 eng
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN	9781935408093
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN	1935408089
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title	eng
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	320.1
Item number	BRO
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name	Brown, Wendy,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Walled states, waning sovereignty /
Statement of responsibility, etc	Wendy Brown.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication	New York :
Name of publisher	Zone Books ;
Place of publication	Cambridge, Mass. :
Name of publisher	Distributed by the MIT Press,
Year of publication	2010.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages	167 p. :
Accompanying material	pbk
520 1# - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc	"Why, just two decades after international celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall, are so many nation-states building elaborate walls at or near their borders? Why walls now, given growing global connectedness and given the general imperviousness of late modern powers---from capital to religion to terror---to physical blockading? How do walls shore up an imago of soverign statehood and to what extent do they fortify rectionary national imaginaries? What do the new wall's perform symbolically, materially, psychically?" "In Walled States, Waning Sovereignty, Wendy Brown reflects on the proliferation of nation-state walls in a time of eroded nation-state sovereignty and intensifying transnational powers unleashed by globalization. A leading theorist of neoliberalism, Brown argues that although the new walls may demarcate existent or aspirational nation-state boundaries, they do not arise as fortresses against invading national armies or even as articulations of sovereign statehood. Rather, in a post-Westphalian context of increasing nonstate transnational actors and powers, the new walls consecrate the very boundary corruption they would contest as well as signify the contemporary limitations of national and global governance by law or political dictate, Even as walls theatrically display nation-state sovereignty, they index with equal force the decline of sovereign state power." "In a rare combination of powerful theory and precise historical, political, and economic analysis, Walled States, Waning Sovereignty provides a new---indeed the first---account of nation-state walling as a distinctive contemporary phenomenon. For Brown, the frenzy of wall building today reveals crucial predicaments of political power and desire emerging from the waning of sovereignty, including new political ligitimacy deficits, new citizen anxieties, and new fusions of state and nonstate violence."--BOOK JACKET.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Sovereignty.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Nation-state.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Globalization
General subdivision	Political aspects.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Border security.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term	Boundaries.
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Koha item type	Books

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		Central Library	Central Library	General Section	14/01/2016	Researchco Books	1260.09	320.1 BRO	029391	Books