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For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. In "Laughing at Leviathan", Danilyn Rutherford examines this struggle through a series of interlocking essays that drive at the core meaning of sovereignty itself - how it is fueled, formed, and even thwarted by pivotal but often overlooked players: those that make up an audience. Whether these players are citizens, missionaries, competing governmental powers, nongovernmental organizations, or the international community at large, Rutherford shows how a complex interplay of various observers is key to the establishment and understanding of the sovereign nation-state. Drawing on a wide array of sources, from YouTube videos to Dutch propaganda to her own fieldwork observations, Rutherford draws the history of Indonesia, empire, and postcolonial nation-building into a powerful examination of performance and power. Ultimately she revises Thomas Hobbes, painting a picture of the Leviathan not as a coherent body but a fragmented one distributed across a wide range of both real and imagined spectators. In doing so, she offers an important new approach to the understanding of political struggle.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Society & social sciences Politics & government Political structure & processes

• Pełny tytuł: Laughing at Leviathan
• Podtytuł: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua
• Autor: Danilyn Rutherford
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 296
• EAN: 9780226731971
• ISBN: 0226731979
• ID: 04548982
• Wydawca: The University of Chicago Press
• Waga: 536 g
• Wymiary: 229 × 152 × 22 mm
• Data wydania: 11. May 2012

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