03113nam 2200493 450 991082197440332120180620081741.01-78533-701-710.1515/9781785337017(CKB)3790000000534631(MiAaPQ)EBC4901394(DE-B1597)636301(DE-B1597)9781785337017(EXLCZ)99379000000053463120180113h20182018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierStategraphy toward a relational anthropology of the state /edited by Tatjana Thelen, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-BeckmannNew York, New York ;Oxford, England :Berghahn Books,2018.©20181 online resource (163 pages)Studies in Social Analysis ;Volume 41-78533-699-1 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction Stategraphy: Relational Modes, Boundary Work, and Embeddedness -- Chapter 1 Contingent Statehood Clientelism and Civic Engagement as Relational Modalities in Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Chapter 2 The State, Legal Rigor, and the Poor The Daily Practice of Welfare Control -- Chapter 3 Relationships, Practices, and Images of the Local State in Rural Russia -- Chapter 4 Acts of Assistance Navigating the Interstices of the British State with the Help of Non-profit Legal Advisers -- Chapter 5 Images of Care, Boundaries of the State Volunteering and Civil Society in Czech Health Care -- Chapter 6 State Kinning and Kinning the State in Serbian Elder Care Programs -- Chapter 7 Workings of the State Administrative Lists, European Union Food Aid, and the Local Practices of Distribution in Rural Romania -- Chapter 8 Creating the State Locally through Welfare Provision Two Mayors, Two Welfare Regimes in Rural Hungary -- IndexStategraphy—the ethnographic exploration of relational modes, boundary work, and forms of embeddedness of actors—offers crucial analytical avenues for researching the state. By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing grounded empirical studies with rigorous theorizing, the volume provides new perspectives to broader related debates in social research and political analysis.Political anthropologyState, ThePolitical anthropology.State, The.306.2Thelen TatjanaVetters LarissaBenda-Beckmann Keebet vonMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821974403321Stategraphy3953277UNINA