Performing sovereignty : civilisation and savagery in the New and Old Worlds

This thesis explores how sovereignty is performed through appeals to the concepts of civilisation and savagery. In the discipline of International Relations (IR), most scholars still consider sovereignty as a largely unproblematic (if now socially constructed) concept. Following post-colonial schola...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mathieu, Xavier
Other Authors: Hobson, John
Published: University of Sheffield 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.686487