"This edition published 2013 by Routledge"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Questions of jurisdiction -- The metaphysics of jurisdiction -- On the founding of law's jurisdiction and the politics of sexual difference : the case of Roman law -- Guantanamo Bay, abandoned being and the constitution of jurisdiction -- Conjuring Palestine : the jurisdiction of dispossession -- Jurisdiction and nation-building : tall tales in nineteenth-century Aotearoa/New Zealand -- The suppression of state interests in international litigation -- Mapping territories -- Placing jurisdiction -- A jurisdiction of body and desire : exploring the boundaries of bodily control in prostitution law -- Subjects of jurisdiction : the dying, Northern Territory, Australia, 1995-1997 -- Embracing jurisdiction : John Ford's The man who shot Liberty Valance -- Jurisdiction and the colonisation of sublime enjoyment.