Sovereignty in Drag
On Fakes, Foreclosure, and Unbecoming States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2435682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Bryant (0000-0002-8079-7704, Utrecht University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0886-7356 • E-ISSN: 1548-1360 |
| Publisher | American Anthropological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.14506/ca36.1.03 |
| OpenAlex | W3132558791 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 31 |
A growing ethnographic literature demonstrates the mundane practices through which both the state and sovereignty are performed. This article asks at what point such performances succeed or where they may fail, even for those enacting them. The article builds on long-term research in an unrecognized state, the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," which is often called a pirate or pseudo-state and which has undergone several decades of international isolations. Since the early 2000s, however, Turkish Cypriots have experienced the closer integration of their "state" into the global economy and transnational institutions. This has resulted in international engagement with their "state" that has made it appear more "real," even as, paradoxically, citizens have developed their own pervasive discourse of pseudo-ness. The article uses examples of engagement with the unrecognized entity to show how, in the context of globalization, citizens learn, in their daily lives, to perform their state as a "state," persistently calling attention to the made-up nature of their sovereignty claims. The article develops the concept of the unbecoming to refer to entities that are foreclosed from their inception, as well as the unsuitable or unfitting form that such entities acquire when certain desires are always already impossible. Özet Her geçen gün artan sayıda etnografik literatür, devlet ve egemenliğin günlük pratikler aracılığıyla gerçekleştiğini göstermektedir. Bu çalışma, bu tip performansların hangi noktada başarılı olup hangi noktada başarısız olabildiğini sorgulamaktadır. Bu makale, sık sık korsan veya sahte devlet olarak anılan ve uzun yıllar birçok izolasyona tabii tutulmuş, tanınmamış bir devlet olan "Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti"nde yapılmış uzun dönemli bir araştırmayı zemin olarak almaktadır. Ancak 2000'li yılların başından beri Kıbrıslı Türkler "devlet"lerinin küresel ekonomi ve transnasyonal kurumlarla daha yakın bir entegrasyon yaşadığına şahit olmaktadırlar. Bu gelişme, paradoksal bir şekilde vatandaşların yaygın bir halde kendi "uyduruk devlet" söylemlerini geliştirmiş olmalarına rağmen, "devlet"lerinin uluslararası angajmanlara girmesiyle daha "gerçek" bir görüntü yakalamasına neden olmuştur. Bu çalışma, küreselleşme bağlamında tanınmamış bir entite ile kurulan ilişkilerden örnekler vererek, vatandaşların nasıl bir taraftan ısrarla kendi egemenlik iddialarının uyduruk yapısına dikkat çekerken diğer taraftan günlük hayatlarında "devlet"lerini "devlet" olarak icra etmelerini göstermeye çalışacaktır. Bu makale "oluşamayan" tanımıyla, bazı arzular her zaman ve hali hazırda imkansız olmasına rağmen bazı entitelerin başlangıçtan mümkün olamayan, ayrıca uygunsuz, uymayan bir yapıya sahip olduklarını kastetmektedir
Context (archaeology · Foreclosure · Globalization · Linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · State of exception · Turkish · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Cyprus History, Politics, Society · History · Law · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society
Agency in waiting
Border Backdrop
Bootstrapping sovereignty
Unauthorized Identity Craft
The paperwork of plunder
Legalizing Oneself
Rebel oil regimes and economic governance
Nested Borders
Putting on a Show? The Sovereignty of De Facto States Between Performativity, Performance and Virtuality
Bureaucraft
Governing by Proximity
Fuzzy borders
Solar Seduction
The Make-Believe Space
An Anthropology of Names and Naming
Irony, Cynicism and the Chinese State
Simulacra and Simulation
Gender Trouble
Sovereignty and Engagement without Recognition
The Stigmatisation of de facto States
Recognition, Status Quo or Reintegration
Reconsidering statehood
Secession, states and international society
Sovereignty in Exile
Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State (1977)
Inside/outside
De facto, displaced, tacit
Prosaic geographies of stateness
The Everyday Lives of Sovereignty
The Politics of Simulation. Fake Repairs in a Serbian Industrial Town
Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds
China Who Makes and Fakes
Sovereignty and the Vicissitudes of Recognition
On the Road to Normal
Guns and guitars
From the Enemy's Point of View
Rethinking fakes, authenticating selves
Clean fake
For an anthropology of the demoralized
Brands as masks
Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming
American Kitchens, Luxury Bathrooms, and the Search for a 'Normal' Life in Postsocialist Hungary
Everyday metaphors of power
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |