Neoliberal Frontiers
An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Neoliberal Sovereignty
Part one
1 Customs as Effective Sovereign: State Logics across Time and Place
2 Anthropologies of the State: Marrying Ethnography and Political Economy
Part two
3 Histories and Tactics of Territorial Sovereignty: Thinking through the Border
4 The Sovereignty of Good Governance: Bureaucratic Contests and the Recentering of Power
5 The Properties of Popular Sovereignty: Customs and Corruption, Cars, and Democratic Discourse
6 Technologies of Sovereignty: The Politics and Phenomenology of Privatized Rule on the Maritime Frontier
7 Affective Sovereignty: Airport Anthropology and the Shifting Contours of Citizenship
Conclusion: Working the Border: Neoliberal Sovereignty in Comparative Perspective
Notes
References
Index
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