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In this essay, I focus on the ways in which Palestinians' predicament calls attention to important variations in sovereignty, because Palestinians have experienced what Ilana Feldman (2008, 1) has called a "surfeit of governance." I then discuss how Palestinians and other people in the Middle East have nevertheless performed popular sovereignties. Unlike in some Native North American examples (e.g., ... read moreCattelino 2008; Kauanui 2008b; Simpson 2014), these popular sovereignties seem especially provisional, not resting on enforceable law or acknowledged rights, or even, in some cases, on bounded and spatialized collectivities, but rather on either insistent confrontation or quiet acts of caring for community in the face of abandonment. These emergent forms of popular sovereignty challenge the legitimacy of state authorities, create new forms of collectivity, and forge new ideas of how power should function, even though they have not ultimately restructured state power.read less
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