Democracy's empire
Subtitle: sovereignty, law, and violence
By: edited by Stewart Motha.
Contributors: Motha, Stewart J. 1970-
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405146944
Subjects: Rule of law; Democracy -- Social aspects; Sovereignty; Church and state; Political violence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Democracy's empire : sovereignty, law, and violence / Stewart Motha; title: Church, state, resistance / Jean-Luc Nancy; title: Constitutional violence / David Bates; title: Sovereignty, exception, and norm / Andrew Norris; title: Undoing legal violence : Walter Benjamin's and Giorgio Agamben's aesthetics of pure means / Benjamin Morgan; title: The normality of the exception in democracy's empire / Peter Fitzpatrick and Richard Joyce; title: Post-apartheid social movements and the quest for the elusive 'new' South Africa / Tshepo Madlingozi; title: The violence of non-violence : law and war in Iraq / Samera Esmeir; title: Performing power : the deal, corporate rule, and the constitution of global legal order / Fleur Johns; title: Veiled women and the affect of religion in democracy / Stewart Motha.