{"product_id":"states-of-imagination-9780822327981","title":"States of Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe 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, \u003ci\u003eStates of Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003eFocusing 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 institution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This outstanding volume contains an excellent introductory discussion of current trends of thinking and research on the state. The first-rate articles by a mix of well- and less-known scholars are sophisticated, nuanced, and accessible.”—George Marcus, author of \u003ci\u003eEthnography Through Thick and Thin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With its wealth of empirical description coming from all parts of the postcolonial world, this book is an immensely valuable contribution to the new ethnography of the state. Hansen and Stepputat have put together a richly varied but carefully organized and theoretically productive set of studies.”—Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: States of Imagination \/ Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I. State and Governance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Demonic Societies”: Liberalism, Biopolitics, and Sovereignty \/ Mitchell Dean\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Governing Population: The Integrated Child Development Services Program in India \/ Akhil Gupta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Battlefield and the Prize: ANC’s Bid to Reform the South African State \/ Steffen Jensen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Imagining the State as a Space: Territoriality and the Formation of the State in Ecuador \/ Sarah A. Radcliffe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e II. State and Justice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The South African Truth and Reconcilliation Commission: A Technique of Nation-State Formation \/ Lars Buur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Reconstructing National Identity and Renegotiating Memory: The Work of the TRC \/ Aletta J. Norval\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rethinking Citizenship: Reforming the Law in Postwar Guatemala \/ Rachel Sieder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Governance and State Mythologies in Mumbai \/ Thomas Blom Hansen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e III. State and Community\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Before History and Prior to Politics: Time, Space, and Territory in the Modern Peruvian Nation-State \/ David Nugent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Urbanizing the Countryside: Armed Conflict, State Formation, and the Politics of Place in Contemporary Guatemala \/ Finn Stepputat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the Name of the State? Schools and Teachers in an Andean Province \/ Fiona Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Captive State: Corruption, Intelligence Agencies, and Ethnicity in Pakistan \/ Oskar Verkaaik\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Public Secrets, Conscious Amnesia, and the Celebration of Autonomy for Ladakh \/ Martijn van Beek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e About the Contributors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406028742999,"sku":"9780822327981","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822327981.jpg?v=1730494296","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/states-of-imagination-9780822327981","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}