Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging - Softcover

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty; Butler, Judith

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9781906497835: Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging

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ISBN 10: 1906497834 ISBN 13: 9781906497835

Publisher: Seagull Books, 2011

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This spirited and engaging conversation between two of America’s foremost and influential cultural critics and international theorists of the last decade explores what both Enlightenment and contemporary philosophers have to say about the idea of the nation-state, who exercises power in today’s world, whether there is such a thing as a right to rights, and the past, present, and future of the state in a time of globalization. In a world of migration and shifting allegiances� caused by cultural, economic, military, and climatic change, the nation-state, as Judith Butler and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak argue, has become a more provisional place—and its inhabitants, more stateless.

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Book Description:

In a world of migration and shifting allegiances, the state has become a more provisional place and its inhabitants more stateless. What is contained in a state has become ever more plural while the boundaries of a state have become ever more fluid. No longer does a state naturally come with a nation.
This book is set in the form of a conversation between two renowned thinkers, Judith Butler and Gayatri Spivak, who discuss the fact that globalization has made things like national anthems and political boundaries obsolete. The result is a spirited and engaging conversation that ranges widely across Palestine, what Enlightenment and key contemporary philosophers have said about the state, who exercises power in today's world, whether we can have a right to rights, and even what the singing of "The Star Spangled Banner" in Spanish says about the complex world we live in today.

About the Author:

Judith Butler is the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of many books, including Gender Trouble:Feminism and the Subversion of Identity and Bodies That Matter:On the Discursive Limits of ‘Sex.’ Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor in the Humanities and the author of many books, including The Post-Colonial Critic and Nationalism and Imagination, the latter also published by Seagull Books.

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