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Critical Beings Law, Nation, and the Global Subject »

Authors: Peter Fitzpatrick, Patricia Tuitt
ISBN-13: 9780754622888, ISBN-10: 0754622886
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Date Published: February 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	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