SCPL3606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sage Gateshead, Biopolitics, Office Of Biometric Identity Management
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Subjectivity, territoriality" in k. cox, m. low and j. robinson (eds). The westphalian ideal of sovereignty is an ideal. Most pol geography apart from world systems theory uses the individual nation state or local state as the primary unit of analysis . The state is not a thing-in -itself but is constituted out of the representations and practises that are associated with it . The state is framed as a political but as an organic cultural community. Together makes possible the conception of the state as a subject. Apparatus of the state, which spreads throughout the territory, allows for monitoring, governing and control of population. Sovereignty legitimate exercise of power, one that links authority, territory (people and society) and recognition in a particular place (biersteker and weber, 1996: 3) State formation cannot be divorced from the state of affairs in europe in the 16th and 17th. Monarchy system concentration of power in the hands of the monarch.