{"product_id":"the-anthropology-of-the-state-9781405114677","title":"The Anthropology of the State","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis innovative reader brings together classic theoretical texts and cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state institutions, practices, and processes and outlines an anthropological framework for rethinking future study of the state. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style:\" none\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFocuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the state.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style:\" none\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePromotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style:\" none\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHelps readers to make anthropological sense of the state as a cultural artifact, in the context of a neoliberalizing, transnational world.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Sharma and Gupta] have compiled a timely, useful and dense collection of classical and more recent texts that cover the field, as I know it, pretty well.\" (\u003ci\u003eCritique of Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e, 2009)  \u003cp\u003e\"The volume presents an innovative and greatly needed introduction to an interdisciplinary research programme between anthropology and political science.\" (\u003ci\u003eDiscourse \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/i\u003e, February 2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"[This) volume's refreshing theoretical approach and range of empirical examples should make it a valuable teaching and reference book for all those concerned with the challenging questions posed by the state.\" (\u003ci\u003ePolitical Studies Review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eOrganization of the Book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Rethinking Theories of the State in an Age of Globalization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Theoretical Maps: The “Classics”\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation): Louis Althusser.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Selections from the Prison Notebooks: Antonio Gramsci.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Bureaucracy: Max Weber.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State: Philip Abrams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Governmentality: Michel Foucault.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Governing “Advanced” Liberal Democracies: Nikolas Rose.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Ethnographic Mappings\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection I: Bureaucracy\/Governmentality\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Finding the Man in the State: Wendy Brown.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Society, Economy, and the State Effect: Timothy Mitchell.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State: Akhil Gupta.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection II: Development\/Planning\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Cities, People, and Language: James Scott.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The Anti-Politics Machine: Jim Ferguson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection III: Welfare\/Warfare\/Law\/Citizenship\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The Public\/Private Mirage: Mapping Homes and Undomesticating Violence Work in the South Asian Immigrant Community: Ananya Bhattarcharjee.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Cultural Logics of Belonging and Movement: Transnationalism, Naturalization, and U.S. Immigration Politics: Susan Bibler Coutin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Making War at Home in the United States: Militarization and the Current Crisis: Catherine Lutz.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection IV: Popular Culture\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Popular Culture and the State: Stuart Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. The Banality of Power and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in the Postcolony: Achille Mbembe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407850611031,"sku":"9781405114677","price":99.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405114677.jpg?v=1730500735","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-anthropology-of-the-state-9781405114677","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}