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Contesting the State - The Dynamics of Resistance and Control (Paperback)
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Contesting the State - The Dynamics of Resistance and Control (Paperback)
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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, or marginal to,
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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