The Anthropology of the State A Reader

This innovative reader brings together classic theoretical texts and cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state institutions, practices, and processes and outlines an anthropological framework for rethinking future study of "the state". Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the "state". Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject. Helps readers to make anthropological sense of the state as a cultural artifact, in the context of a neoliberalizing, transnational world.

Aradhana Sharma is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies at Wesleyan University.

Akhil Gupta is Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. His previous publications include Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science (ed. 1997), Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology (ed. 1997), Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India (1998), and Caste and Outcast (ed. 2002).

Acknowledgments

ix

Organization of the Book

xi

Introduction: Rethinking Theories of the State in an Age of Globalization

1

(42)

Part I Theoretical Genealogies

43

(120)

Introduction

45

(4)

Bureaucracy

49

(22)

Max Weber

State and Civil Society

71

(15)

Antonio Gramsci

Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)

86

(26)

Louis Althusser

Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State

112

(19)

Philip Abrams

Governmentality

131

(13)

Michel Foucault

Governing ``Advanced'' Liberal Democracies

144

(19)

Nikolas Rose

Part II Ethnographic Mappings

163

(2)

Section I Bureaucracy and Governmentality

165

(78)

Society, Economy, and the State Effect

169

(18)

Timothy Mitchell

Finding the Man in the State

187

(24)

Wendy Brown

Blurred Boundaries: The Discourse of Corruption, the Culture of Politics, and the Imagined State

211

(32)

Akhil Gupta

Section II Planning and Development

243

(44)

Cities, People, and Language

247

(23)

James C. Scott

The Anti-Politics Machine

270

(17)

James Ferguson

Section III Violence, Law, and Citizenship

287

(70)

Making War at Home in the United States: Militarization and the Current Crisis

291

(19)

Catherine Lutz

Cultural Logics of Belonging and Movement: Transnationalism, Naturalization, and US Immigration Politics

310

(27)

Susan Bibler Coutin

The Public/Private Mirage: Mapping Homes and Undomesticating Violence Work in the South Asian Immigrant Community

337

(20)

Anannya Bhattacharjee

Section IV Popular Culture

357

(44)

Popular Culture and the State

360

(21)

Stuart Hall

The Banality of Power and the Aesthetics of Vulgarity in the Postcolony

381

(20)

Achille Mbembe

Index

401

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