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Book SynopsisState Theory and Andean Politics explores the material and cultural processes by which states come to appear as real and tangible parts of everyday life in the Andes, showing the state to be one of many forces vying for a claim to legitimate domination in a highly contested political field.
Trade Review"A heroic, successful, and grounded assault on the apparent empirical reality of the state and its 'state effects.' These intrepid scholars hurl themselves at the Andean state, but they bring an analytical imagination and ethnographic practice to match the shape-shifting social production of the state that we can all learn from. A major break in the sterile, realist clouds that have obscured a more nuanced understanding of both state effects and state affects." * James C. Scott, Yale University *
"A very important book for political anthropologists and historians of state formation. Its compelling and unique argument will be a fascinating intervention" * Nancy Postero, University of California, San Diego *
"A splendid collection of very strong essays by first-class scholars that contributes to the regional ethnographic and historical literature and to discussions of the nature of the state, political rule, and citizenship in the region.
State Theory and Andean Politics fills a void." * Finn Stepputat, Danish Institute for International Studies *
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Off-Centered States: Rethinking State Theory Through an Andean Lens
—Christopher Krupa and David Nugent
PART I. CRITICAL PHENOMENOLOGIES OF RULE
Chapter 2. The Idea of the State in Colombia: An Analysis from the Periphery
—María Clemencia Ramírez
Chapter 3. Respatializing the State from the Margins: Reflections on the Camba Autonomy Movement in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
—Nicole Fabricant
Chapter 4. State Formation and Class Politics in Colombia
—Lesley Gill
PART II. OFF-CENTERED MORPHOLOGIES OF STATE
Chapter 5. Cadastral Politics: Property Wars and State Realism in Highland Ecuador
—Christopher Krupa
Chapter 6. New Arenas of State Action in Highland Ecuador: Public Health and State Formation, c. 1925-1950
—A. Kim Clark
Chapter 7. The State and Indigenous Women in Ecuador, 1925-1975
—Mercedes Prieto
PART III. FEAR, FANTASY, AND DELUSION
Chapter 8. Haunting the Modern Andean State: Colonial Legacies of Race and Civilization
—Irene Silverblatt
Chapter 9. Appearances to the Contrary: Fantasy, Fear, and Displacement in Twentieth-Century Peruvian State Formation
—David Nugent
PART IV. CROSS-BORDER PROCESSES OF STATECRAFT
Chapter 10. Notes on the Formation of the Andean Colonial State
—Karen Spalding
Chapter 11. The Aspirational State: State Effects in Putumayo
—Winifred Tate
PART V. THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS
Chapter 12. Off-Centered States: An Appreciation
—Gyanendra Pandey
Chapter 13. Viewing States from the Global South
—Akhil Gupta
Notes
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
