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.
Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgements.
Organization of the Book.
Introduction: Rethinking Theories of the State in an Age of
Globalization.
Part I: Theoretical Maps: The ‘Classics’.
Section Introduction.
1. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an
Investigation): Louis Althusser.
2. Selections from the Prison Notebooks: Antonio Gramsci.
3. Bureaucracy: Max Weber.
4. Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State: Philip
Abrams.
5. Governmentality: Michel Foucault.
6. Governing ‘Advanced’ Liberal Democracies: Nikolas
Rose.
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 Culture
of 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 Undomesticating
Violence Work in the South Asian Immigrant Community: Ananya
Bhattarcharjee.
13. Cultural Logics of Belonging and Movement: Transnationalism,
Naturalization, and U.S. Immigration Politics: Susan Bibler
Coutin.
14. Making War at Home in the United States: Militarization and
the 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 the
Postcolony: Achille Mbembe.
Index
Circa l’autore
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).
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