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Contesting the State - The Dynamics of Resistance and Control (Hardcover, New)
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Contesting the State - The Dynamics of Resistance and Control (Hardcover, New)
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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 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.
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