The Anthropology of the State (eBook, PDF)

A Reader
Redaktion: Sharma, Aradhana; Gupta, Akhil

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405155359
• Artikelnr.: 38282050

Autorenporträt

Aradhana Sharma is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at Wesleyan University. Akhil Gupta is Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. His previous publications include Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science (ed. 1997), Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology (ed. 1997), Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India (1998), and Caste and Outcast (ed. 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.

Organization of the Book.

Introduction: Rethinking Theories of the State in an Age ofGlobalization.

Part I: Theoretical Maps: The "Classics".

Section Introduction.

1. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards anInvestigation): Louis Althusser.

2. Selections from the Prison Notebooks: Antonio Gramsci.

3. Bureaucracy: Max Weber.

4. Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State: PhilipAbrams.

5. Governmentality: Michel Foucault.

6. Governing "Advanced" Liberal Democracies: NikolasRose.

Part II: Ethnographic Mappings.

Section I: Bureaucracy/Governmentality.

7. Finding the Man in the State: Wendy Brown.

8. Society, Economy, and the State Effect: Timothy Mitchell.

9. Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Cultureof Politics, and the Imagined State: Akhil Gupta.

Section II: Development/Planning.

10. Cities, People, and Language: James Scott.

11. The Anti-Politics Machine: Jim Ferguson.

Section III: Welfare/Warfare/Law/Citizenship.

12. The Public/Private Mirage: Mapping Homes and UndomesticatingViolence Work in the South Asian Immigrant Community: AnanyaBhattarcharjee.

13. Cultural Logics of Belonging and Movement: Transnationalism,Naturalization, and U.S. Immigration Politics: Susan BiblerCoutin.

14. Making War at Home in the United States: Militarization andthe Current Crisis: Catherine Lutz.

Section IV: Popular Culture.

15. Popular Culture and the State: Stuart Hall.

16. The Banality of Power and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in thePostcolony: Achille Mbembe.

Index

Rezensionen

"[Sharma and Gupta] have compiled a timely, useful and densecollection of classical and more recent texts that cover the field,as I know it, pretty well." (Critique of Anthropology, 2009)

"The volume presents an innovative and greatly neededintroduction to an interdisciplinary research programme betweenanthropology and political science." (Discourse &Society, February 2008)

"[This) volume's refreshing theoretical approach and range ofempirical examples should make it a valuable teaching and referencebook for all those concerned with the challenging questions posedby the state." (Political Studies Review)"This is a nuanced, original framework for thinking about thestate as a highly variable phenomenon of emergent world orders.With its expert selection of readings and comprehensive analysis,this volume is bound to become a standard reference and popularteaching tool."
-George Marcus, University of California,Irvine

"The Anthropology of the State will be an importantresource for teaching and for introducing students to new questionsin anthropology. This collection offers a nice balance ofhistorical and contemporary writings and a lucid introduction thatadvances theoretical claims about the state with the help ofethnographic examples. Contemporary globalization and transnationalsystems that are redefining the functions of the state make this anopportune moment for a serious reexamination of the processes ofgovernance."
-Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University

"One key strength of the volume is its coherence andintertextuality...Recommended."
-K. Brown, Brown University