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category: Political Science
published: Nov 2005
ISBN:9780774812498
publisher: UBC Press

Sanctuary, Sovereignty, Sacrifice

Canadian Sanctuary Incidents, Power, and Law

by Randy Lippert

tagged: human rights, civil rights
Description

Drawing on theories of governmentality, Lippert traces the emergence of sanctuary practice to a shift in responsibility for refugees and immigrants from the state to churches and communities. Here sanctuary practices and spaces are shaped by a form of pastoral power that targets needs and operates through sacrifice, and by a sovereign power that is exceptional, territorial, and spectacular. Correspondingly, law plays a complex role in sanctuary, appearing variously as a form of oppression, a game, and a source of majestic authority that overshadows the state. A thorough and original account of contemporary sanctuary practice, this book tackles theoretical and methodological questions in governmentality and socio-legal studies.

About the Author

Randy Lippert

Contributor Notes

Randy K. Lippert is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Windsor.

Editorial Reviews

The work is highly original, contributing to theory regarding governmentality, as well as to knowledge regarding Canadian sanctuary practices ... Altogether, a fascinating and complex account.

— Susan Bibler Coutin, author of The Culture of Protest: Religious Activism and the U.S. Sanctuary Movement

Randy Lippert’s Sanctuary, Sovereignty and Sacrifice is an ambitious work that manages to successfully interrogate an empirical phenomena (sanctuary incidents) via a set of highly sophisticated theoretical concepts. Lippert’s sophisticated theoretical engagement and empirical investigation are intellectually fruitful and politically timely

— The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
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