Aradhana Sharma ; Akhil Gupta creator Aradhana Sharma; Akhil Gupta text Political anthropology-Sovereignty xxu Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub. , 2006 monographic eng

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x, 410 pages ; 26 cm. This 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' Bureaucracy / Max Weber -- State and civil society / Antonio Gramsci -- Ideology and ideological state apparatuses (notes towards an investigation) / Louis Althusser -- Notes on the difficulty of studying the state / Philip Abrabs -- Governmentality / Michel Foucault -- Governing 'advanced' liberal democracies / Nikolas Rose -- Society, economy, and the state effect / Timothy Mitchell -- Finding the man in the state / Wendy Brown -- Blurred boundaries : the discourse of corruption, the culture of politics, and the imagined state / Akhil Gupta -- Cities, people, and language / James C. Scott -- The anti-politics machine / James Ferguson -- Making war at home in the United States : militarization and the current Crisis / Catherine Lutz -- Cultural logics of belonging and movement : transnationalism, naturalization, and US immigration politics / Susan Bibler Coutin -- The Public/private mirage : mapping homes and undomesticating violence work in the South Asian Immigrant community / Anannya Bhattacharjee -- Popular culture and the state / Stuart Hall -- The banality of power and the aesthetics of vulgarity in the postcolony / Achille Mbembe. /Aradhana Sharma; Akhil Gupta Social Sciences 306.2 SHA 9781405114684 Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P)Ltd. ;7/22,Ansari Road,Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002 180717 20180717143946.0