Voluminous States: Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Territorial Imagination
ISBN: 9781478012061
Platform/Publisher: e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection / Duke University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: chapter
Subjects: Geography; Anthropology; Cultural Studies / Surveillance Studies;

Conceiving of sovereign space as volume rather than area, the contributors to Voluminous States explore how such a conception reveals and underscores the three-dimensional nature of modern territorial governance.


Franck Billé is Program Director of the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Sinophobia: Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity and coeditor of Yellow Perils: China Narratives in the Contemporary World .

Debbora Battaglia is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College and editor of E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces .
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