Contributor
Sharma, Aradhana.
Imprint:Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
Descriptionx, 410 p. ; 26 cm.
Note:INTRODUCTION: Rethinking theories of the state in an age of globalism -- PART I. THEORETICAL GENEALOGIES: 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 Abrams -- Governmentality / Michel Foucault -- Governing "advanced" liberal democracies / Nikolas Rose -- PART II. ETHNOGRAPHIC MAPPINGS: Section I. BUREAUCRACY AND GOVERNMENTALITY: 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 -- Section II. PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT: Cities, people, and language / James C. Scott -- The anti-politics machine / James Ferguson -- SECTION III. VIOLENCE, LAW, AND CITIZENSHIP: 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 -- SECTION IV. POPULAR CULTURE: Popular culture and the state / Stuart Hall -- The banality of power and the aesthetics of vulgarity in the postcolony / Achille Mbembe.
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