States of imagination : ethnographic explorations of the postcolonial state / / edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat

• Pubblicazione: Durham [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (433 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.2
• Soggetto topico: Political anthropology; Anthropology - Fieldwork; Social sciences and state; Postcolonialism; Post-communism; Poststructuralism
• Altri autori: HansenThomas Blom <1958-> StepputatFinn
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-413) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "Demonic societies": liberalism, biopolitics, and sovereignty / Mitchell Dean -- Governing population: the integrated child development services program in India / Akhil Gupta -- The battlefield and the prize: ANC's bid to reform the South African State / Steffen Jensen -- Imagining the state as a space: territoriality and the formation of the state in Ecuador / Sarah A. Radcliffe -- The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: a technique of nation-state formation / Lars Buur -- Reconstructing national identity and renegotiating memory: the work of the TRC / Aletta J. Norval -- Rethinking citizenship: reforming the law in postwar Guatemala / Rachel Sieder -- Governance and state mythologies in Mumbai / Thomas Blom Hansen -- Before history and prior to politics: time, space, and territory in the modern Peruvian nation-state / David Nugent -- Urbanizing the countryside: armed conflicts, state formation, and the politics of place in contemporary Guatemala / Finn Stepputat -- In the name of the state? Schools and teachers in an Andean province / Fiona Wilson -- The captive state: corruption, intelligence agencies, and ethnicity in Pakistan / Oskar Verkaaik -- Public secrets, conscious amnesia, and the celebration of autonomy for Ladakh / Martijn van Beek.
• Sommario/riassunto: Theoretically sophisticated ethnographies of different aspects of various governments, showing the importance of such work to anthropology and to the study of states in general.
• Titolo autorizzato: States of imagination
• ISBN: 9786613062192; 1-283-06219-4; 0-8223-8127-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910171018703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: e-Duke books scholarly collection.; Politics, history, and culture.