In the last few decades, Andean states have seen major
restructuring of the organization, leadership, and reach of their
governments. With these political tremors come major aftershocks,
regarding both definitions and expectations: What is a state? Who
or what makes it up, and where does it reside? In what capacity can
the state be expected to right wrongs, raise people up, protect
them from harm, maintain order, or provide public services? What
are its powers and responsibilities? State Theory and Andean
Politics attempts to answer these questions and more through an
examination of the ongoing process of state creation in Andean
nations. Focusing on the everyday, extraofficial, and frequently
invisible or partially concealed permutations of rule in the lives
of Andean people, the essays explore the material and cultural
processes by which states come to appear as real and tangible parts
of everyday life. In particular, they focus on the critical role of
emotion, imagination, and fantasy in generating belief in the
state, among the governed and the governing alike. This approach
pushes beyond the limits of the state as conventionally understood
to consider how "nonstate" acts of governance intersect with
official institutions of government, while never being entirely
determined by them or bound to their authorizing agendas. State
Theory and Andean Politics asserts that the state is not simply an
institutional-bureaucratic apparatus but one of many forces vying
for a claim to legitimate political dominion. Featuring an
impressive array of Andeanist scholars as well as eminent state
theorists Akhil Gupta and Gyanendra Pandey, State Theory and Andean
Politics makes a bold and novel claim about the nature of states
and state-making that deepens understanding not only of the Andes
and the Global South but of the world at large. Contributors: Kim
Clark, Nicole Fabricant, Lesley Gill, Akhil Gupta, Christopher
Krupa, David Nugent, Gyanendra Pandey, Mercedes Prieto, Maria
Clemencia Ramirez, Irene Silverblatt, Karen Spalding, Winifred
Tate.
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