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State, Resistance, Transformation - Anthropological perspectives on the dynamics of power in contemporary global realities (Paperback)
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State, Resistance, Transformation - Anthropological perspectives on the dynamics of power in contemporary global realities (Paperback)
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The territorially sovereign nation-state – the globally dominant
political formation of Western modernity – is in crisis. Though
it is a highly heterogeneous assemblage, moulded by different
histories involving myriad socio-cultural processes, its
territorial integrity and sovereignty are always contingent and
related to the distribution and organization of authority and
power, and the state’s position within encompassing global
dynamics. This volume attends to these contingencies as they are
refracted by the communities and populations that are variously
incorporated (in conformity or resistance) within their ordering
processes. With ethnographically grounded analyses and thick
description of locales as various as Russia, Lebanon and Indonesia,
a vital conversation emerges about forms of state control under
challenge or in transition. It is clear that the politico-social
configurations of the state are still taking new directions, such
as extremist populism and a general dissatisfaction with the
corporatism of digital and technological revolutions. These are
symptoms of the dilemmas at the peripheries of capital growth
coming home to roost at their centres. Such transformations demand
the new forms of conceptualization that the anthropological
approaches of the essays in this volume present.
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