State, Security, and Subject Formation

Senior Canada Research Chair in the Department of Political Science, University of Alberta. Foundation director and professor of the Whitlam Institute Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy at the University of Western Sydney. Magdalena Zolkos is Researcher in Political Theory at the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy. She is a co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Political Theory Colloquium at the University of Alberta.

• Chapter 1 State, Security and Subject Formation - an Introduction by Anna Yeatman; Chapter 2 The Man and the Citizen: the Pluralization of Civil Personae in Early Modern German Natural Law by Ian Hunter; Chapter 3 Reassembling Civilization: State-formation, Subjectivity, Security, Power by Robert van Krieken; Chapter 4 Without Exception: Democracy and Sovereignty After Carl Schmitt by Charles Barbour; Chapter 5 Anti-security Personae: from David Dyzenhaus's Human Rights Lawyer to Giorgio Agamben's illuminato by David Saunders; Chapter 6 Doubt, Ambiguity and Subject Formation by Paul Hoggett and Nigel Williams; Chapter 7 The Subject 'At the Gates of the Polis': Theorizing Transitional Civic Order from the Site of Trauma by Magdalena Zolkos; Chapter 8 Self-preservation and the Idea of the State by Anna Yeatman; Chapter 9 Society, State, Security, and Subject Formation: The Emergence of Modern Neutrality Society and the Formation of the Types of Subjects it Requires by Gary Wickham and Barbara Evers; Chapter 10 Anti-colonial Nationalisms: the Case of India by Benjamin Zachariah; Chapter 11 The Sense of Existing and its Political Implications (on Francois Flahault's 'General Anthropology') by Jeffrey Minson; Bibliography.

"Security has in recent years been aligned with emergency, border defence, and bare life. Not in this volume, whose contributors turn to an unusual variety of thinkers (from Pufendorf to Nehru, Hobbes and Locke to Arendt and Flahault), and use diverse, multi-disciplinary resources (political theory, psychoanalysis, anthropology, contextual history and conceptual analysis) to take us beyond Schmitt and Agamben. Here, security names the conditions of a civic project of peace and reconciliation, and a citizenship of active enjoyment, both situated in the ample terrain between law and its suspension. The contributions are thoughtful and the collection as a whole pushes the political theory of security in new and welcome directions." -- Bonnie Honig, Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor, Political Science, Northwestern University and American Bar Foundation, author of Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy (2009)