Critical Beings Law, Nation, and the Global Subject

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Critical beings, according to these legal scholars from Britain, North America, and Australia, are people excluded or marginalized in the persistent and unsettled processes of national and global affirmation. Concern for these people lie at the heart of the variation on the reduction of the global to the powers of nations that they present, a variation that accommodates the claims of the globalists in national terms, but also indicates what the global may be beyond the reach of nations. They consider such aspects as national identity and refugee laws, making people illegal, and an exploratory cartography of an emerging female global subject. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780754622888
  • Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited
  • Publication date: 2/1/2004
  • Series: Law, Justice and Power Series
  • Pages: 246
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 8.70 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The Fiction of the State of Nature in Real Time: The Social Contract, International Human Rights and the Refugee 3
2 National Identity and Refugee Law 19
3 Refugees, Nations, Laws and the Territorialization of Violence 37
4 On Being, Nation and Citizenship in Sri Lanka: Going Beyond the Ontological Hermeneutic of the Buddhist Cosmos 57
5 Making People Illegal 83
6 Constitutional (U) Topology: the (Dis) Appearance of Ireland 101
7 Terminal Legality? Human Rights and Critical Being 119
8 The Paradox of Human Rights 137
9 Global Formations: IMF Conditionality and the South as Legal Subject 161
10 Ejecting an Inside: An Essay on the Politics of the Contemporary American Immigration State 181
11 Mapping Territories of Legality: An Exploratory Cartography of an Emerging Female Global Subject 203
Index 223
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