Description: An account of how courts repeat historical fictions that maintain sources of sovereign power.
Review Quotes: "Set in and around the Indian Ocean, Archiving Sovereignty is a thoughtful meditation on how the law traffics in fictions--the 'as if'--as it adjudicates state sovereignty in contexts of colonial and postcolonial violence. Elegantly written, it invites an important consideration of the law's complex work as historical archivist."
--Avery F. Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara