{"product_id":"laughing-at-leviathan-danilyn-rutherford-9780226731971","title":"Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua","description":"For West Papua and its people, the promise of sovereignty has never been realized, despite a long and fraught struggle for independence from Indonesia. In \u003ci\u003eLaughing at Leviathan\u003c\/i\u003e, Danilyn Rutherford examines this struggle through a series of interlocking essays that drive at the core meaning of sovereignty itself--how it is fueled, formed, and even thwarted by pivotal but often overlooked players: those that make up an audience. Whether these players are citizens, missionaries, competing governmental powers, nongovernmental organizations, or the international community at large, Rutherford shows how a complex interplay of various observers is key to the establishment and understanding of the sovereign nation-state. Drawing on a wide array of sources, from YouTube videos to Dutch propaganda to her own fieldwork observations, Rutherford draws the history of Indonesia, empire, and postcolonial nation-building into a powerful examination of performance and power. Ultimately she revises Thomas Hobbes, painting a picture of the Leviathan not as a coherent body but a fragmented one distributed across a wide range of both real and imagined spectators. In doing so, she offers an important new approach to the understanding of political struggle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Danilyn Rutherford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226731979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226731971\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Danilyn Rutherford","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086424092927,"sku":"9780226731971","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d25e482a-3fda-4456-b3ce-0cfcfa9eb8d8.jpg?v=1769094596","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/laughing-at-leviathan-danilyn-rutherford-9780226731971","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}