Anthropology of the State A Reader

Name: Anthropology of the State A Reader
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ISBN: 9781405114684

ISBN-10: 1405114681

ISBN-13: 9781405114684

Edition: 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Aradhana Sharma, Akhil Gupta

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This innovative reader brings together classic theoretical texts and cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state institutions, practices, and processes and outlines an anthropological framework for rethinking future study of "the state". Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the "state". Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject. Helps readers to make anthropological sense of the state as a cultural artifact, in the context of a neoliberalizing, transnational world.

Book details

List price: $72.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/24/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.76" wide x 9.70" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.826
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Organization of the Book


Introduction: Rethinking Theories of the State in an Age of Globalization



Theoretical Genealogies


Introduction



Bureaucracy




State and Civil Society




Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)




Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State




Governmentality




Governing "Advanced" Liberal Democracies




Ethnographic Mappings



Bureaucracy and Governmentality



Society, Economy, and the State Effect




Finding the Man in the State




Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State




Planning and Development



Cities, People, and Language




The Anti-Politics Machine




Violence, Law, and Citizenship



Making War at Home in the United States: Militarization and the Current Crisis




Cultural Logics of Belonging and Movement: Transnationalism, Naturalization, and US Immigration Politics




The Public/Private Mirage: Mapping Homes and Undomesticating Violence Work in the South Asian Immigrant Community




Popular Culture



Popular Culture and the State




The Banality of Power and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in the Postcolony



Index