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Angela Hobart

 
9781907774355: Contesting the State: The Dynamics of Resistance and Control
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ISBN 10: 1907774351 ISBN 13: 9781907774355
Editorial: Sean Kingston, 2014

Sinopsis

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 intenselyEurocentric 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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Acerca del autor

Angela Hobart (Editor and Contributor) is Director of the Centro Incontri Umani, Ascona, Switzerland, and a Research Fellow, Medical Anthropology Department, University College London, UK. Bruce Kapferer (Editor and Contributor) is Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at Bergen University, Norway, Adjunct Professor at James Cook University, Australia and Honorary Professor at University College London, UK. Contributors to this book are: Hosham Dawod (Institut Français du Proche-Orient & Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), T.M.S. Evens (University of North Carolina), Jonathan Friedman(l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales & University of California), Laurie Kain Hart (Haverford College), Joanna Overing (University of St Andrews), Bal Gopal Shrestha (University of Oxford), Christopher Taylor (Independant scholar), Roshan de SilvaWijeyeratne (Griffith University).

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Editorial
Sean Kingston
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1907774351
ISBN 13 
9781907774355
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
308
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