The Anthropology of the State A Reader,9781405114677

The Anthropology of the State A Reader

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9781405114677
ISBN10: 1405114673
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-01-31
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Organization of the Book xi
Introduction: Rethinking Theories of the State in an Age of Globalization 1(42)
Part I Theoretical Genealogies
43(120)
Introduction
45(4)
Bureaucracy
49(22)
Max Weber
State and Civil Society
71(15)
Antonio Gramsci
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)
86(26)
Louis Althusser
Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State
112(19)
Philip Abrams
Governmentality
131(13)
Michel Foucault
Governing ``Advanced'' Liberal Democracies
144(19)
Nikolas Rose
Part II Ethnographic Mappings
163(2)
Section I Bureaucracy and Governmentality
165(78)
Society, Economy, and the State Effect
169(18)
Timothy Mitchell
Finding the Man in the State
187(24)
Wendy Brown
Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State
211(32)
Akhil Gupta
Section II Planning and Development
243(44)
Cities, People, and Language
247(23)
James C. Scott
The Anti-Politics Machine
270(17)
James Ferguson
Section III Violence, Law, and Citizenship
287(70)
Making War at Home in the United States: Militarization and the Current Crisis
291(19)
Catherine Lutz
Cultural Logics of Belonging and Movement: Transnationalism, Naturalization, and US Immigration Politics
310(27)
Susan Bibler Coutin
The Public/Private Mirage: Mapping Homes and Undomesticating Violence Work in the South Asian Immigrant Community
337(20)
Anannya Bhattacharjee
Section IV Popular Culture
357(44)
Popular Culture and the State
360(21)
Stuart Hall
The Banality of Power and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in the Postcolony
381(20)
Achille Mbembe
Index 401

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