State and statehood in the Global South : theoretical approaches and empirical studies / / edited by Miriam Fahimi, Elmar Flatschart, and Wolfram Schaffar

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 pages)
• Disciplina: 320.91724
• Soggetto geografico: Developing countries Politics and government; Developing countries Economic conditions
• Persona (resp. second.): SchaffarWolfram; FlatschartElmar; Miriam Fahimi
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- Part I: Introduction -- Critical State Theory in the Global South -- Theoretical Approaches -- Area Studies -- Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches -- Operationalisation -- New Developments with COVID-19 -- The Contents of this Volume: Achievements and Failures -- Perspectives and Outlook on Further Research -- References -- Part II: Theoretical and Methodological Preliminaries -- Materialist Theory and the State in Peripheral/Post-Colonial Societies -- Introduction -- Materialist State Theory: Interest- and Form-Oriented Approaches -- The Ontological Question of Materialist State Theory -- Poulantzas and Miliband -- The German State Derivation Debate -- Political-Economical Contexts of the Materialist Debate on the State -- A World-System: Between Abstract Totality and Contingent Concreteness -- Imperialism: A Universal Logic of Development? -- Uneven Capitalist Development: Dependencia and World-Market-Integration -- The Post-Colonial State: Class and State Formation -- Peripheral Capitalism and the Overdeveloped State: Alavi, Saul et al. -- Neo-imperialism Versus the Separation of the Political and Economic? Amin-Khan -- The State in Peripheral Societies: Prerequisites of World-Market-Integration -- A Critique of the Overdeveloped State -- Towards a General Theory of the Capitalist State -- The Separation of the Political and Economic Revisited -- The State´s Role in Reproducing Society -- The State Form and Sovereignty -- The State´s and the World-Market -- World-System Integration and Development -- Towards a Renewal of the Debate on the Developmental State -- References -- Stategraphy: A Social Anthropological Approach to the State -- Introduction -- The State in Social Anthropology -- Stategraphy: A Relational Approach to the State -- Relational Modalities. ; Boundary Work -- Embedding of Actors -- Conclusion and Comparative Outlook -- References -- Ethics of Doing Critical Research on the State in the Global South -- Introduction -- Research Ethics -- and the State -- and How It Evolved -- Codes of Ethics -- and How It Is Challenged -- Feminist Research Ethics -- Decolonial Research Ethics -- Codes of Feminist or Decolonial Ethics -- and the Global South -- Relational Positioning -- Adapting Guidelines? -- Power -- Responsibility and Association -- as Ethics of Theory and Politics of Research -- Activism -- Engagement -- Negotiating Responsibilities -- for Critical State Theory of the Global South: An Outlook -- References -- Part III: Materialist State Theoretical Analysis -- State Theory of the Semi-Periphery as State Theory of Deficit: The Example of Modern Turkey -- Turkey: Authoritarian Statehood in the Semi-Periphery -- Poulantzas and the State Theory of the Semi-Periphery -- Precarious Relative Autonomy of State Apparatuses -- Tilman Evers´ Concept of the Peripheral State -- Application to the Turkish Case -- Conclusion -- References -- Materialist State Theory: An Example of Analyzing the State at the Periphery -- Introduction -- Materialist State Theory -- Hegemony and the Peripheral State Capacities -- The Kirchnerist Hegemony Project in Argentina -- 2003-2008 -- Accumulation, Capital, and the Power Bloc -- Working Class, Labor Movement, and Popular Classes -- 2008-2009 -- 2009-2011 -- 2012-2015 -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Analyzing the State from Constructivist and Critical Realist Perspectives -- Abe Shinzo´s Neoliberal Nationalism: A Discourse of Transcendence -- Introduction: Transformation and Preservation -- Theoretical and Methodological Considerations -- To Take Japan Back, This Is the Only Path Forward -- Transforming Japan in a Hyper-Globalised World. ; Preserving the Nation-State. The Construction of National Sovereignty and Identity -- Abe´s Attempted Synthesis of Hyperglobalisation and National Sovereignty -- An Authoritarian Transcendence of ``Improvement´´ and ``Habitation´´ -- ``Improvement´´: Neoliberalisation in a Hyper-Globalised World -- ``Habitation´´: The Construction of Nationalism -- Transcending the Struggle Between ``Improvement´´ and ``Habitation´´ -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Resource Frontiers and Indigenous Mobilization in Myanmar: A Critical Realist Approach to Empirical Research in the ``Global S... -- Introduction -- Taking a CR Approach -- Initial Literature Review -- Accessing the Field -- Developing a CR Research Design -- Methods of Data Collection -- Interviews -- Ethnographic Methods -- Social Media and Audio-Visual Data -- Policy Documents and ``Gray Literature´´ -- Preliminary Analysis: From the Empirical to the Abstract and Back -- Conclusion -- References -- Part V: Ethnographical and Postcolonial Approaches to State and Statehood -- Moral Appreciation: Caring for Post-socialist Cows in Contemporary Serbia -- Introduction -- Meet the Jovanovićs -- The Anthropology of the State and Rural Capitalism -- Moral Appreciation -- Moba/Pozajmica, Summer 2010 -- Agricultural Transformations -- Conclusion -- References -- Latin America: The Refounding of the State -- Introduction -- Refounding of the State -- A Polysemic Concept -- Refounding and Decolonial Latin American Thought -- Refounding and Character of the State -- Refounding and Latin American Constitutionalism -- The scaffoldings of the refounding of the State -- The Case of Guatemala. An Open Debate -- Background and Scaffoldings of Plurinational Constitutionalism -- Plurinationality -- Good Living -- Challenges for (the Research on) the Refounding Processes. ; On the Mechanical Reproduction of Theoretical Schemes and Emancipation Projects -- On Intercultural Translation -- On the Colonial Paradox in Refounding Processes -- Conclusion -- References -- Constitutions -- Constitutions: -- Ethnography of the State in Plurinational Bolivia: Indigenous Knowledge, Clientelism and Decolonizing Bureaucracy -- Introduction -- Doing Ethnography of the State -- The New Policy and Its Contradictions -- Translating Indigenous Knowledge into Technical Expertise -- Middle-Class Fragility and Clientelism -- Conclusion -- References.
• Titolo autorizzato: State and Statehood in the Global South
• ISBN: 3-030-94000-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910564696903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II