Contesting the State: The Dynamics of Resistance and Control - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907774351 ISBN 13: 9781907774355

Verlag: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Sean Kingston Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1907774351
• ISBN 13: 9781907774355
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308
• Herausgeber: Hobart Angela
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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