具体描述
What is the 'state' and how can we best study it? This book investigates new ways of analysing the state. The contributors argue that the state is not a fixed and definite object. Our perceptions of it are constantly changing, and differ from person to person. What is your idea of the state if you are a refugee? Or if you are living in post-aparteid South Africa? Our perceptions are formed and sustained by evolving discourses and techniques -- these come from institutions such as government, but are also made by communities and individuals. The contributors examine how state structures are viewed from the inside, by official state bodies, composed of bureaucrats and politicians; and how these state manifestations are supported, reproduced or transformed at a local level. An outline of theoretical approaches is followed by nine case studies ranging from South Africa to Peru to Norway. With a good range of contributors including Cris Shore, Clifton Crais, Ana Alonso and Bruce Kapferer, this is a comprehensive critical analysis of anthropological approaches to the study of state formation.
作者简介
Christian Krohn-Hansen is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters.
Knut Gunnar Nustad is Associate Professor in the Department of International Environment and Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He is the author of numerous book chapters and journal articles.
目录信息
Foreword vii
Bruce Kapferer
Preface xii
PART I THEORETICAL APPROACHES
1. Introduction 3
Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad
2. Sovereignty, the Spatial Politics of Security, and Gender:
Looking North and South from the US–Mexico Border 27
Ana M. Alonso
PART II A VIEW FROM COMMUNITIES
3. Chiefs and Bureaucrats in the Making of Empire: A Drama
from the Transkei, South Africa, October 1880 55
Clifton Crais
4. State Formation through Development in Post-apartheid
South Africa 79
Knut G. Nustad
5. Negotiated Dictatorship: The Building of the Trujillo State
in the Southwestern Dominican Republic 96
Christian Krohn-Hansen
6. The Materiality of State-Effects: An Ethnography of a Road
in the Peruvian Andes 123
Penelope Harvey
7. Contradictory Notions of the State: Returned Refugees in
Guatemala 142
Kristi Anne Stølen
PART III A VIEW FROM STATE BODIES
8. Counting on State Subjects: State Formation and Citizenship in
Twentieth-century Mexico 171
Helga Baitenmann
9. ‘A Speech that the Entire Ministry May Stand For’:
On Generating State Voice 195
Iver B. Neumann
10. ‘Better Safe than Sorry’: Legislating Assisted Conception
in Norway 212
Marit Melhuus
11. The State of the State in Europe, or, ‘What is the European
Union that Anthropologists Should be Mindful of It?’ 234
Cris Shore
Contributors 256
Index 257
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