Rebecca Bryant is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at University of Utrecht. She is author of The Past in Pieces.

Madeleine Reeves is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at Manchester University. She is author of Border Work.

Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Sovereign Agency, by Rebecca Bryant and Madeleine Reeves

1. Sovereignty in the Skies: An Anthropology of Everyday Aeropolitics, by Rebecca Bryant

2. Sovereignty as Generator of Inconsistent State Desire in Northeastern Central African Republic, by Louisa Lombard

3. "Because I Have a Hookup": Cheating Citizens and the Unbearable State in Post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina, by Azra Hromadži¿

4. Aspirational Sovereignty and Human Rights Advocacy: Audience, Recognition, and the Reach of the Taiwan State, by Sara Friedman

5. Gender, Violence, and Competing Sovereign Claims in Afghanistan, by Torunn Wimpelmann

6. Everyday Sovereignty in Exile: People, Territory, and Resources among Sahrawi Refugees, by Alice Wilson

7. Existential Sovereignty: Latvian People,Their State, and the Problem of Mobility, by Dace Dzenovska

8. Sovereign Days: Imagining and Making the Catalan Republic from Below, by Panos Achniotis

9. The False Promises of Sovereignty: Enclaves, Exclaves, and Impossible Politics in the Jewish State, by Joyce Dalsheim

10. Signs of Sovereignty: Mapping and Countermapping at an "Unwritten" Border, by Madeleine Reeves

Epilogue: The Ironies of Misrecognition, by Jens Bartelson