Sharma / Gupta The Anthropology of the State

A Reader
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5535-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Readers in Anthropology

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sharma, Aradhana

Gupta, Akhil

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Aradhana Sharma is Assistant Professor of Anthropology andWomen's Studies at Wesleyan University.
Akhil Gupta is Associate Professor of Cultural and SocialAnthropology at Stanford University. His previous publicationsinclude Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of aField Science (ed. 1997), Culture, Power, Place:Explorations in Critical Anthropology (ed. 1997),Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of ModernIndia (1998), and Caste and Outcast (ed. 2002).