Peter Gelderloos

Worshiping Power

An Anarchist View of Early State Formation

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Produktbeschreibung

Where did the state come from? Where is it going? This study in politogenesis shakes up the status quo.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AK Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 136mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 283g
• ISBN-13: 9781849352642
• ISBN-10: 184935264X
• Artikelnr.: 44796761

Autorenporträt

Peter Gelderloos: Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist writer originally from Virginia. He is author of How Nonviolence Protects the State, Consensus, and Anarchy Works.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I. Take Me to Your Leader: The Politics of Alien Invasion
II. Ze Germans: A State-Making Technology
III. Save Me from Yourself: the Statist Spread of Salvation Religions
IV. Sleeper States and Imperial Imaginaries: Authority's Afterlife and
Reincarnation
V. The Modern State: A Revolutionary Hybrid
VI. Zomia: A Topography of Positionality
VII. Chiefdoms and Megacommunities: On the Stability of Non-State
Hierarchies
VIII. They Ain't Got No Class: Surpluses and the State
IX. All in the Family: Kinship and Statehood
X. Building the Walls Higher: From Raiding to Warfare
XI. Staff and Sun: A New Symbolic Order
XII. A Forager's Mecca: Dreams of Power
XIII. Clastres and Cairo: Learning from States