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Book SynopsisThis Companion offers an unprecedented overview of anthropology's unique contribution to the study of politics.
- Explores the key concepts and issues of our time - from AIDS, globalization, displacement, and militarization, to identity politics and beyond
- Each chapter reflects on concepts and issues that have shaped the anthropology of politics and concludes with thoughts on and challenges for the way ahead
- Anthropology''s distinctive genre, ethnography, lies at the heart of this volume
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“A magnificent collection. The most engaged and imaginative writing that anthropology has to offer, disclosing the inherently political nature of everyday life.” Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley
“What is impressive about this collection is the way many authors take received ideas from political science, political philosophy, cultural studies, or world systems theory and, by subjecting them to ethnographic scrutiny, transform them in new and powerful ways. Anthropology makes a difference.” Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago
"The Blackwell Companions to Anthropology, of which this volume is the second to appear, are set fair to blow cobwebs from dormant minds ... this volume is an exemplar of scholarship at its meticulous, dynamic, and demanding best ... we have here an erudite analysis of problems of direct relevance to the lives of every individual person on our planet, and an inspired exploration of “things to come”. This is scholarly, sophisticated, unsparing, courageous political thinking, far removed from the shams, slogans, shibboleths, stupidities, and silliness of much of the political comment and conditioning purveyed by our mass media – even by our elected “representatives” ... This is an admirable work that will fertilise the rugged field of the anthropology of politics for decades to come. All academic libraries need it. It would also be a salutary Christmas present choice for our pet political representative, an earnest hope of a positive revolution in political theory and practice.” Reference Reviews
Table of ContentsSynopsis of Contents viii
Preface xv
Notes on Contributors xvi
Introduction 1
Joan Vincent
1 Affective States 4
Ann Laura Stoler
2 After Socialism 21
Katherine Verdery
3 AIDS 37
Brooke Grundfest Schoepf
4 Citizenship 55
Aihwa Ong
5 Cosmopolitanism 69
Ulf Hannerz
6 Development 86
Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud
7 Displacement 107
Elizabeth Colson
8 Feminism 121
Malathi de Alwis
9 Gender, Race, and Class 135
Micaela di Leonardo
10 Genetic Citizenship 152
Deborah Heath, Rayna Rapp, and Karen-Sue Taussig
11 The Global City 168
Saskia Sassen
12 Globalization 179
Jonathan Friedman
13 Governing States 198
David Nugent
14 Hegemony 216
Gavin Smith
15 Human Rights 231
Richard Ashby Wilson
16 Identity 248
Arturo Escobar
17 Imagining Nations 267
Akhil Gupta
18 Infrapolitics 282
Steven Gregory
19 ‘‘Mafias’’ 303
Jane C. and Peter T. Schneider
20 Militarization 318
Catherine Lutz
21 Neoliberalism 332
John Gledhill
22 Popular Justice 349
Robert Gordon
23 Postcolonialism 367
K. Sivaramakrishnan
24 Power Topographies 383
James Ferguson
25 Race Technologies 400
Thomas Biolsi
26 Sovereignty 418
Caroline Humphrey
27 Transnational Civil Society 437
June Nash
28 Transnationality 448
Nina Glick Schiller
Index 468
