Subject of Sovereignty

Gregory Feldman is a political anthropologist at the University of Windsor. He is the author of three books including the The Gray Zone: Sovereignty, Human Smuggling, and Undercover Police Investigation in Europe (Stanford University Press, 2019); We Are All Migrants: Political Action and the Ubiquitous Condition of Migrant-Hood (Stanford Briefs, 2015); The Migration Apparatus: Security, Labor, and Policymaking in the European Union (Stanford University Press, 2011).

“The Subject of Sovereignty is an original and profound meditation on politics and poetics of relationality. In this powerful book Feldman asks difficult but crucial questions about how to imagine otherwise, both in the political arena and in knowledge production.” • Shahram Khosravi, Stockholm University“Feldman has written an astonishing book. It is a beautifully composed expression of a questioning mind encountering modernity through anthropology, philosophy, and reflection.” • Mark Maguire, Maynooth University“In highly erudite fashion, Feldman cites examples from ethnography, but also from philosophy, literature, pop culture, and a wide range of other contexts to support his argument through different historical periods… I found it very refreshing to read a book of such wide historical and intellectual scope.” • Ingo W. Schröder, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Marburg

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sovereignty’s Janus Face: Denying or Acknowledging RelationalityChapter 1. Human/Nature:How the Rise of the Liberal Subject Impoverished Our Understanding of RelationalityChapter 2. The Pathetic Oppressor: the Insanity of Sovereignty in a Racist WorldChapter 3. Sovereign Fusions: The Reduction to “Man” and Its Phenomenological AlternativesChapter 4. Extra/Ordinary Action: The Divine-Like Element in Relational SovereigntyConclusion: From Rethinking the Political to Rethinking SovereigntyReferencesEndnotes