States of imagination : ethnographic explorations of the postcolonial state / / edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat
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| Titolo: |
States of imagination : ethnographic explorations of the postcolonial state / / edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat
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| 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
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| 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 |
| 9781283062190 | |
| 1283062194 | |
| 9780822381273 | |
| 0822381273 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910171018703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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