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Critical beings : law, nation, and the global subject

Title
Critical beings : law, nation, and the global subject / edited by Peter Fitzpatrick and Patricia Tuitt.
Publication
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Fitzpatrick, Peter, 1941-
  • Tuitt, Patricia, 1961-
Description
xx, 226 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Law, justice, and power
Uniform Title
Law, justice, and power.
Subject
  • Minorities > Legal status, laws, etc
  • Refugees > Legal status, laws, etc
  • Nation-state
  • Marginality, Social
  • Critical theory
  • Minorités > Droit
  • Réfugiés > Droit
  • Nation
  • Marginaux
  • Théorie critique
  • Vreemdelingenrecht
  • Minderheden
  • Rechtspositie
  • Marginaliteit
  • Immigratie
  • Illegale buitenlanders
  • Mensenrechten
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The fiction of the state of nature in real time : the social contract, international human rights and the refugee / Jill Stauffer -- National identity and refugee law / Sarah Kyambi -- Refugees, nations, laws and the territorialization of violence / Patricia Tuitt -- On being, nation and citizenship in Sri Lanka : going beyond the ontological hermeneutic of the Buddhist cosmos / Roshan De Silva -- Making people illegal / Catherine Dauvergne -- Constitutional (U)topology : the (dis)appearance of Ireland / Patrick Hanafin -- Terminal legality : human rights and critical being / Peter Fitzpatrick -- The paradox of human rights / Paul A. Passavant -- Global formations : IMF conditionality and the south as legal subject / Sundhya Pahuja -- Ejecting an inside : an essay on the politics of the contemporary American immigration state / Kunal Parker -- Mapping territories of legality : an exploratory cartography of an emerging female global subject / Denise Ferreira da Silva.
ISBN
0754622886
LCCN
  • 2002043971
  • 99821844903
OCLC
  • 51305729
  • ocm51305729\
  • SCSB-5434581
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries