"The variety of the essays and empirical cases demonstrate clearly
the necessity of careful analysis of local situations and provide
strong arguments for avoiding the overemphasis of singular
explanations, such as those based on human rights...Because of its
theoretical sophistication as well as empirical force the volume
deserves a careful reading." Helsinki Review of Global Governance
."..this volume...provides rich theoretical and empirical inputs
for discussions of some of the most important current issues
concerning the state, globalization, and the use of violence."
Anthropos
Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations,
this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and
its potential in situations of violent conflict. The state,
otherwise understood as an abstract and transcendent concept in
many works on globalization in political philosophy, is instead
located and analyzed here as an embedded part of lived reality.
This relationship to the state is exposed as an integral factor to
the formation of the social - whether in Africa, the Middle East,
South America or the United States. Through the examination of
these particular empirical settings of war or war-like situations,
the book further argues for the continued importance of the state
in shifting social and political circumstances. In doing so, the
authors provide a critical contribution to debates within a broad
spectrum of fields that are concerned with the future of the state,
the nature of sovereignty, and globalization.
Bruce Kapferer is Professor of Anthropology at the University of
Bergen. He has held academic positions in Zambia, Manchester,
Adelaide, London and Queensland and carried out extensive fieldwork
in Zambia, Sri Lanka, India, Australia and South Africa.
Bjorn Enge Bertelsen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University
of Bergen. His work focuses on violence, history, sovereignty, and
the post-colonial state and is based mainly on fieldwork in
Mozambique.
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