Title & Author:

Democracy's empire : sovereignty, law, and violence / edited by Stewart Motha.

Publication:

Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.

Description:

162 pages ; 23 cm

Series:

Journal of law and society, 0263-323X ; v. 34, no. 1

Notes:
"First published in 2007 as a special issue of Journal of law and society."
Includes bibliographical references.
Democracy's empire : sovereignty, law, and violence / Stewart Motha -- Church, state, resistance / Jean-Luc Nancy -- Constitutional violence / David Bates -- Sovereignty, exception, and norm / Andrew Norris -- Undoing legal violence : Walter Benjamin's and Giorgio Agamben's aesthetics of pure means / Benjamin Morgan -- The normality of the exception in democracy's empire / Peter Fitzpatrick and Richard Joyce -- Post-apartheid social movements and the quest for the elusive 'new' South Africa / Tshepo Madlingozi -- The violence of non-violence : law and war in Iraq / Samera Esmeir -- Performing power : the deal, corporate rule, and the constitution of global legal order / Fleur Johns -- Veiled women and the affect of religion in democracy / Stewart Motha.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"The essays in this volume take on the challenge of explaining the current formation of the relation between sovereignty, law, and violence in what is termed 'Democracy's Empire'. Democracy's Empire attempts to capture the co-appearance of the proliferation of democracy as the political formation that institutes and sustains freedom, equality, and emancipation - and along with it, the proliferation of death, destruction, and the abject condition of life."--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9781405146944 (alk. paper)
140514694X (alk. paper)
9781405163132 (pbk.)
1405163135 (pbk.)

Subject:

Rule of law.
Democracy Social aspects.
Sovereignty.
Church and state.
Political violence.
Règle de droit.
Souveraineté.
Église et État.
Violence politique.
sovereignty.
church and state.
terrorism.
89.35 democracy.
Demokratie
Souveränität
Recht
Gewalt
Democracy.
Constitutional state.
Demokrati.
Suveränitet.
Politiskt våld.
Grundlagar.

Added entries:

Motha, Stewart J. (Stewart John), 1970-
Journal of law and society.
Journal of law and society, v. 34, no. 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252275
Call No.: BIB 181960
Status: Available