The state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry by
a broad range of scholars. Reflecting the new vitality of the field
of political anthropology, "States of Imagination" draws together
the best of this recent critical thinking to explore the
postcolonial state. Contributors focus on a variety of locations
from Guatemala, Pakistan, and Peru to India and Ecuador; they study
what the state looks like to those seeing it from the vantage
points of rural schools, police departments, small villages, and
the inside of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Focusing on the micropolitics of everyday state-making, the
contributors examine the mythologies, paradoxes, and
inconsistencies of the state through ethnographies of diverse
postcolonial practices. They show how the authority of the state is
constantly challenged from the local as well as the global and how
growing demands to confer rights and recognition to ever more
citizens, organizations, and institutions reveal a persistent myth
of the state as a source of social order and an embodiment of
popular sovereignty. Demonstrating the indispensable value of
ethnographic work on the practices and the symbols of the state,
"States of Imagination" showcases a range of studies and methods to
provide insight into the diverse forms of the postcolonial state as
an arena of both political and cultural struggle.
This collection will interest students and scholars of
anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, political science, and
history.
"Contributors." Lars Buur, Mitchell Dean, Akhil Gupta, Thomas
Blom Hansen, Steffen Jensen, Aletta J. Norval, David Nugent, Sarah
Radcliffe, Rachel Sieder, Finn Stepputat, Martijn van Beek, Oskar
Verkaaik, Fiona Wilson
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