The essay analyzes the latest developments in sovereignty that seem to configure a return to previous conceptions. To this end, it traces the evolution of the concept from the liberal age, and comes ...up to the recent emergence of the sovereign conception.
The Caucasus region of Eurasia, wedged in between the Black and Caspian Seas, encompasses the modern territories of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, as well as the troubled republic of Chechnya in ...southern Russia. A site of invasion, conquest, and resistance since the onset of historical record, it has earned a reputation for fearsome violence and isolated mountain redoubts closed to outsiders. Over extended efforts to control the Caucasus area, Russians have long mythologized stories of their countrymen taken captive by bands of mountain brigands.
InThe Captive and the Gift, the anthropologist Bruce Grant explores the long relationship between Russia and the Caucasus and the means by which sovereignty has been exercised in this contested area. Taking his lead from Aleksandr Pushkin's 1822 poem "Prisoner of the Caucasus," Grant explores the extraordinary resonances of the themes of violence, captivity, and empire in the Caucasus through mythology, poetry, short stories, ballet, opera, and film. Grant argues that while the recurring Russian captivity narrative reflected a wide range of political positions, it most often and compellingly suggested a vision of Caucasus peoples as thankless, lawless subjects of empire who were unwilling to acknowledge and accept the gifts of civilization and protection extended by Russian leaders.
Drawing on years of field and archival research, Grant moves beyond myth and mass culture to suggest how real-life Caucasus practices of exchange, by contrast, aimed to control and diminish rather than unleash and increase violence. The result is a historical anthropology of sovereign forms that underscores how enduring popular narratives and close readings of ritual practices can shed light on the management of pluralism in long-fraught world areas.
THE IMAGINARY ESTABLISHES ITSELF AS A FERTILE FIELD FOR THINKING ON THE MULTIPLE RELATIONS THAR EXIST AND ARE EXPERIENCED THROUGH THE HUMAN REALITY. ISSUES RELATED TO THE SOCIOECONOMIC, PHYSICAL, ...BIOTIC AND POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS, AMONG OTHERS, CAN BE EXPLORED FROM A STRUCTURE GROUNDED ON THE IMAGINATION. IN THIS CASE, LITERATURE APPEARS AS AN INSTRUMENT OF REPRESENTATION OF (UN)KNOWN REALITIES THAT CAN BE READ FROM SEVERAL PERSPECTIVES, AS MENTIONED ABOVE. THE WORK OF J. R. R. TOLKIEN ENTITLED "THE LORD OF THE RINGS" PRESENTS ITSELF AS AN ARCHETYPE OF COMPLEX IMAGINATION IN WHICH DIFFERENT SOCIETIES ARE PRESENTED AS HAVING INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS AMONG THEMSELVES. THIS WORK, FROM ITS OWN COMPLEXITY, PRESENTS ITSELF AS AN EXCELLENT STAGE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERIENCES ON THE DIFFERENT SPHERES THAT COMPOSE THE HUMAN REALITY. FURTHER INFORMATION IN TOLKIEN'S WORK REFERS TO THE DYNAMICS OF POWER THAT MAY BE AN INDICATOR OF POLICY AMONG THOSE EXISTING IN MIDDLE-EARTH. IN THIS SENSE, THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PRESENT STUDY IS TO ANALYSE, FROM THE REALIZED WORK, HOW THE POWER IS FACED BY ITS MULTIPLE CHARACTERS (AND SOCIETIES), AS WELL AS UNDERSTAND WHICH DYNAMIC ALLOWED FOR THE RISE OF POLITICAL POWER IN MIDDLE-EARTH.
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Opponents to tribal sovereignty define the notion as a case study of “Indians” wanting to have the cake and eat it too, while for those in favor of self-determination the question is not whether to ...have the cake and/or eat it, but the sole right of baking the cake. The metaphorical sovereignty cake is comprised of executive, legislative, and judicial layers which further include economic, cultural, and political measures taken by Indian peoples towards the realization of self-determination. The essay aims at exploring how the social, cognitive-perceptual, and emotional modes of humor within and outside Indian Country have been utilized to overcome the discrepancies rooted in the conflicting definitions of sovereignty. The analysis also addresses the issue of perspectives: humor arising from the paradoxical understandings of Indigenous and mainstream views of checks and balances, federal responsibilities, and treaty rights. The events cited demonstrate how American Indian communities employ humor to serve as an in/outgrouping mechanism and a way of social control to maintain community integrity.
This article analyzes how the notion of “sovereignty” has been and is still mobilized in the realm of the digital. This notion is increasingly used to describe various forms of independence, control, ...and autonomy over digital infrastructures, technologies, and data. Our analysis originates from our previous and current research with activist “tech collectives” where we observed a use of the notion to emphasize alternative technological practices in a way that significantly differs from a governmental policy perspective. In this article, we review several publications in order to show the difference, if not diverging ways in which the notion is being conceptualized, in particular by different groups. We show that while the notion is generally used to assert some form of collective control on digital content and/or infrastructures, the precise interpretations, subjects, meanings, and definitions of sovereignty can significantly differ.
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