SSoovveerreeiiggnn LLiivveess Sovereign Lives Power in Global Politics Edited byJenny Edkins,Veronique Pin-Fat and Michael J. Shapiro ROUTLEDGE NewYork • London Publishedin2004by Routledge 270MadisonAvenue NewYork,NY10016 www.routledge-ny.com PublishedinGreatBritainby Routledge 2ParkSquare MiltonPark,Abingdon, OxonOX144RN,U.K. www.routledge.co.uk Copyright©2004byTaylorandFrancisBooks,Inc. RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylorandFrancisGroup. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaonacid-freepaper. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Allrightsreserved. Nopartofthisbookmaybeprintedorutilizedinanyformorbyany electronic,mechanicalorothermeans,nowknownorhereafterinvented,includingphoto copyingandrecording,oranyotherinformationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutper missioninwritingfromthepublisher. LibraryofCongressCataloging-In-Publicationdata: Sovereignlives:poweringlobalpolitics/JennyEdkins,VeroniquePin-Fat,andMichaelJ. Shapiro,editors. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-415-94735-9(cl:alk.paper)--ISBN0-415-94736-7(pb:alk.paper) 1. Power(Socialsciences) 2. Sovereignty.3. Globalization.4. Internationalrelations. 5. World politics--1989- I. Edkins, Jenny. II. Pin-Fat,Veronique, 1965- III. Shapiro, MichaelJ. JC330.S682004 320'.01'1--dc22 2004003835 Contents Listofillustrations Vll Contributors ix 1. Introduction: Life,Power,Resistance. JENNYEDKINSANDVERONIQUEPIN-FAT 2. TheComplexityofSovereignty. 23 WILLIAME.CONNOLLY 3. CorrelatingSovereignandBiopower. 41 MICHAELDILLON 4. Timefor Politics. 61 ERINMANNING 5. Onthe((TripleFrontier"andthe((Borderization" ofArgentina:ATaleofZones. 79 GUILLERMINASERI 6. ((TheNation-StateandViolence":WimWenders contraImperialSovereignty. 101 MICHAELJ.SHAPIRO 7. KillingCanadians:TheInternationalPolitics ofCapitalPunishment. 125 PATRICIAMOLLOY v vi • Contents 8. FictionalDevelopmentSovereignties. 141 CHRISTINESYLVESTER 9. Creating/NegotiatingInterstices: Indigenous Sovereignties. 165 KARENASHAW 10. EbolaTakestotheRoad:MobilizingViruses inDefenseoftheNation-State. 189 JORGEFERNANDES 11. ((InSearchofAgency)): Beyondthe((Old/New)) BiopoliticsofSovereigntyinBosnia. 211 JASMINAHUSANOVIC 12. Conclusion:Sovereignties,Exceptions,Worlds. 239 R.B.J.WALKER SelectedBibliography 251 Index 259 List ofIllustrations Figure 1. ReconciledbyMotaba)from Outbreak) 1995) 206 directedbyWolfgangPetersen vii Contributors WilliamE.ConnollyistheEisenhower-KriegerProfessorofpoliticalscience atJohnsHopkinsUniversity.Hisbook, The Terms ofPoliticalDiscourse, re centlywontheLippincottAwardforbeingabook"ofexceptionalquality... stillconsideredsignificantafteratimespanofatleast 15years."His recent books include TheEthosofPluralization (1995), WhyIAmNotaSecularist (1999) andNeuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed(2002). MichaelDillon is professor ofpolitics at the UniversityofLancaster,UK. Co-editor of The Journal for Cultural Research (Routledge), he publishes extensivelyininternationalrelations,andinpoliticalandculturaltheory. Jenny Edkins is professor of international politics at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. Her most recent book is Trauma and the Memory of Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2003). She is author of Whose Hunger? Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid (Minnesota, 2000) and Poststructuralism andInternationalRelations:BringingthePoliticalBackin (LynneRienner, 1999). Jorge Fernandes is a researcher at the Globalization Research Center, UniversityofHawaii. Heworks onpostcolonialmigrancyand Creolefor mations. JasminaHusanovichasadoctoratefrom theDepartmentofInternational Politics, UniversityofWales,Aberystwyth. Her research interests span re centpoliticaltheory,aswellasthequestionofemancipatorypoliticalprac tice and the sovereign project, and Bosnian and Balkan themes in this regard. ShehaspublishedinForum Bosnae,InternationalFeministJournal ofPolitics,InternationalJournal ofHuman Rights,andMillennium andhas IX x • SovereignLives:PowerinGlobalPolitics contributedachapterinTheKosovoTragedy:TheHumanRightsDimension, ed.Ken Booth (London: FrankCass,2001).Sheisalso involvedincivilso cietyactivisminBosnia. Erin Manning is in the Fine Arts Faculty at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She also teaches in the Mel Hoppenheim School of CinemaatConcordia.SheisassistantprofessoratConcordiaUniversitywith ajointappointmentinfilmstudiesandstudioart.Shehasrecentlypublished Ephemeral Territories: Representing Nation, Home and Identity in Canada (Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 2003). Her current book project is entitled TransnationalMovementsofDesireandaPoliticsofTouch. Patricia Molloy has a doctorate in education from the University of Toronto,Canada.Shehaspublishedextensivelyontheculturalstudyofin ternationalpoliticsandethics,andistheauthorofFrom theStrategicSelfto theEthicalRelation:PedagogiesofWarandPeace,whichisforthcomingfrom theUniversityofMinnesotaPress. Veronique Pin-Fat is Lecturer in International Relations and Director of the MA Human Rights in the Centre for International Politics, The UniversityofManchester.Shepublishesininternationalpolitics. Gaillermina Seri is a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Political ScienceattheUniversityofFlorida,Gainesville.Herdissertationexamines therelationshipsbetweenpolicingandgovernanceinbothatheoreticaland comparativeperspective.Specifically,itexplorestheroleofnarrativesinthe prevalence of non-democratic policing (and exclusionary political) patterns. Michael J. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii. Among his recent publications are Cinematic Political Thought (UniversityofEdinburgh Press, 1999) and ForMoralAmbiguity: National CultureandthePoliticsoftheFamily(UniversityofMinnesotaPress,2001). HismostrecentbookisMethodsandNations: CulturalGovernanceandthe IndigenousSubject(NewYork: Routledge,2004). KarenaShawisparticularlyinterestedinthechallengesposedbycriticalsocial movementstocontemporarytheoriesandpracticesofpolitics.Shehaswritten inthe areasoffeminist, environmentalandindigenouspolitics,andco-edited A Political Space: Reading the Global through Clayoquot Sound (University of MinnesotaPress,2003).Hercurrentresearchfocusesonhowthestrategiesand practices pursued bythese movements are reformulating political possibility. Contributors • xi Sheis currentlyAssistantProfessorin theSchoolofEnvironmentalStudiesat theUniversityofVictoria,Canada,andformerlytaughtatKeeleUniversity,UK. Christine Sylvester is Professor ofWomen, Gender, Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. Author most recently ofFeminist International Relations: An Unfinished Journey (Cambridge, 2002) and ProducingWomen and Progress in Zimbabwe (Heinemann, 2000), she has writtenontheartsandinternationalrelations/developmentinAlternatives, Millennium, andtheInternationalFeministJournalofPoIiticsandiseditorof a special issue ofthe e-journal Borderlands on Dramaturgies ofViolence (November2003). R. B. J.Walker is Professor ofInternational Relations at the University of Keeleandholds achairattheUniversityofVictoria,BritishColumbia. He has written extensivelyon the implications ofcontemporaryglobal trans formations for modern accounts ofsovereignty, subjectivityand political practice.HeistheeditorofthejournalAlternatives:Global, Local, Political. His best known work is Inside/Outside: International Relations as Political Theory, CambridgeUniversityPress, 1993,andheiscurrentlyontheverge ofcompletinganewbookAftertheGlobe/BeforetheWorld. Hispublications includenumerousjournalarticlesandbooksandbookchapters.