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Author Matthews, Daniel, 1986- author.

Title Earthbound the aesthetics of sovereignty in the Anthropocene / Daniel Matthews
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities
Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Earthbound in the Anthropocene -- 2 The Aesthetics of Sovereignty -- 3 Territory -- 4 People -- 5 Scale -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Daniel Matthews shows how sovereignty - the organising principle for modern law and politics - depends on a distinctive aesthetics that ensures that we see, feel and order the world in such a way that keeps the realities of climate change and ecological destruction largely 'off stage'
Subject Sociological jurisprudence.
Sovereignty.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
sovereignty.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Sociological jurisprudence
Sovereignty
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781474455329
1474455328
9781474455336
1474455336