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Jonna Pettersson is a Senior Lecturer in Global Politics at Malmö University and an external lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Copenhagen.Unity and sameness are usually assumed to be inseparable but in this deeply thoughtful book Jonna Pettersson parses them, offering a much richer understanding of relationality as a result. What emerges is a notion of politics that is based, not on exclusion, but rather on the myriad ways that we are together and many, the same and different, both calculable and incalculable.
- James Martel, Professor of Political Science, San Francisco State University,
Against the closure of politics wrought by theories of political community predicated on unity, Pettersson incisively argues that place and dwelling open up an “incalculable space” as conditioning the possibility of a political community which, resisting exclusion, makes room for all. This book is an important contribution to the highly topical debate about boundaries and community.
- H.K. Lindahl, Chair of Legal Philosophy, Tilburg University, The Netherlands,
In this book, Jonna Pettersson addresses how sameness grounds membership in the political community, and simultaneously closes some people off from the spaces in which they live and dwell. Arguing for a political community where there is space for all, this book makes an essential and timely intervention in contemporary debates on sovereignty, statelessness and democratic membership.
- Sofia Näsström, Associate Professor in the Department of Government, Uppsala University,
This series aims to contribute to our understanding of transversal political struggles beyond and across the borders of the nation-state, and its institutions and mechanisms, which have become influential and effective means of both contentious politics and political subjectivity. The series features titles that eschew and even disavow interpreting these transversal political struggles with categories and concepts of political thought that originally arose from the contained and container politics of the nation-state.Featuring titles that investigate habitus, practices, and acts that define new frontiers of political subjectivity, it engages particularly with indigeneity, diasporicity, the human body, cyberspace, war, and earth. These sites are understood as political sites of struggle and traverse already existing borders, but constitute emergent frontiers of political subjectivity. The investigations of political subjectivity – mechanisms through which individuals or collectivities inhabit positions in social space for articulating collective rights – are, as ever, amongst the most vital questions of our age.
Series Editor: Engin Isin