"People/States/Territories" examines the role of state personnel in
shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories.
The text develops a conceptual understanding of the state as a
continually emerging and contingent territorial organization, which
is reproduced, transformed, and contested by state personnel. Rhys
Jones demonstrates how the iterative practices of state actors may
give meaning and permanence to - or, alternatively, may question
and transform - the state apparatus. In addition, Jones highlights
how the state's territory is continuously negotiated and translated
by those individuals working within this state apparatus, and he
illustrates how the identities and practices of state personnel
have been influenced by the organizational and territorial networks
of power that characterize the state. "People/States/Territories"
views the state, along with the process of state transformation, as
the product of a continual - yet temporally specific - interplay
between state personnel, state organizations, and state
territories.
Featuring accessible, relevant case studies of four key periods
in the transformation of the state within Britain, this book
focuses specifically on: the medieval process of state formation in
Wessex, north-west Scotland, and north Wales; the consolidation of
state organizations that took place in England and Wales during the
early modern period; the peopling of a state- and
territorially-organized process of government inspection in the
nineteenth century in the north of England; and the territorial,
organizational and peopled contexts for the current process of
devolution being experienced in the UK.
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