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The anthropology of the state : a reader / edited by Aradhana Sharma and Akhil Gupta.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Blackwell readers in anthropology ; 9Publication details: Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.Description: x, 410 p. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781405114684 ((pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.2 SHA
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Contents:
Acknowledgments ix Organization of the Book xi Introduction: Rethinking Theories of the State in an Age of Globalization 1 Part I Theoretical Genealogies 43 Introduction 45 1 Bureaucracy 49 Max Weber 2 State and Civil Society 71 Antonio Gramsci 3 Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses 86 (Notes towards an Investigation) Louis Althusser 4 Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State 112 Philip Abrams 5 Governmentality 131 Michel Foucault 6 Governing ‘‘Advanced’’ Liberal Democracies 144 Nikolas Rose Part II Ethnographic Mappings 163 Section I Bureaucracy and Governmentality 165 7 Society, Economy, and the State Effect 169 Timothy Mitchell 8 Finding the Man in the State 187 Wendy Brown 9 Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, 211 the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State Akhil Gupta Section II Planning and Development 243 10 Cities, People, and Language 247 James C. Scott 11 The Anti-Politics Machine 270 James Ferguson Section III Violence, Law, and Citizenship 287 12 Making War at Home in the United States: Militarization 291 and the Current Crisis Catherine Lutz 13 Cultural Logics of Belonging and Movement: Transnationalism, 310 Naturalization, and US Immigration Politics Susan Bibler Coutin 14 The Public/Private Mirage: Mapping Homes and 337 Undomesticating Violence Work in the South Asian Immigrant Community Anannya Bhattacharjee Section IV Popular Culture 357 15 Popular Culture and the State 360 Stuart Hall 16 The Banality of Power and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in the Postcolony 381 Achille Mbembe Index 401
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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