Contesting the State

The Dynamics of Resistance and Control

Hosham Dawod, T. M. S. Evens, Jonathan Friedman (Autoren)

Angela Hobart, Bruce Kapferer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

308 Seiten

2014
Sean Kingston Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-907774-35-5 (ISBN)

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The state is frequently conceived as a universal, although one apparently extraordinarily difficult to define. It often appears in academic discourse and, especially, in the popular imagination as an abstraction, usually nebulous, grasped as pervasive - a spectre to be feared. In this book, distinguished scholars from around the world take issue with this purported universality, exploring alternative imaginings of the state, of power and of global processes at the margins. Taking an anthropological perspective based in diverse ethnographic contexts outside, or marginal to, Europe and North America, if not beyond their controlling influence in globalizing realities, this volume reveals different complexes of power, as well as processes that are external to power and often against it (contra Foucault, and as Pierre Clastres has famously argued). The authors stress not only the different structures of institutional power, but also the persistence or transmutation of local kinds of power and their relevant cosmologies into contemporary globalized settings. They find innovative kinds of modernity, reconfigurations that have effects that cannot be reduced to over-generalized and often intensely Eurocentric concepts of power and the kinds of subjectivities realized by them. In this, the volume opens up the diversity of experiences of the state and offers new directions for its study.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.10.2014
Zusatzinfo	34
Verlagsort	Oxon
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	435 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-907774-35-1 / 1907774351
ISBN-13	978-1-907774-35-5 / 9781907774355
Zustand	Neuware