
Laughing at Leviathan
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Drawing on a wide array of sources, from YouTube videos to Dutch propaganda to her own fieldwork observations, Rutherford draws the history of Indonesia, empire, and postcolonial nation-building into a powerful examination of performance and power. Ultimately she revises Thomas Hobbes, painting a picture of the Leviathan not as a coherent body but a fragmented one distributed across a wide range of both real and imagined spectators. In doing so, she offers an important new approach to the understanding of political struggle.
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- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowlegments
- Chapter 1: Looking Like a Fool
- Part I: Geographies of Sovereignty
- Chapter 2: Laughing at Leviathan
- Chapter 3: Trekking to New Guinea
- Chapter 4: Waiting for the End in Biak
- Part II: Signs of Sovereignty in Motion
- Chapter 5: Frontiers of the Lingua Franca
- Chapter 6: Institutional Power and Interpretive Practice
- Chapter 7: Third-Person Nationalism
- Chapter 8: The Appeal of Slippery Pronouns
- Epilogue
- Chapter 9: Beasts and Sovereigns
- References
- Notes
- Index
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