Pluriversal Sovereignty and the State: Imperial Encounters in Sri Lanka

by Ajay Parasram

This book documents the political and cosmological processes through which the idea of 'total territorial rule' came into being in the context of early- to mid-nineteenth-century Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Analysing ideas at the core of the modern international system, Pluriversal sovereignty and the state develops a decolonial theoretical framework informed by a 'pluriverse' of multiple ontologies of sovereignty to argue that the territorial state itself...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526148404
• ISBN13: 9781526148407
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"