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Crisis of the State: War and Social Upheaval de Kapferer

Crisis of the State: War and Social Upheaval

Autor Kapferer Editat de Bruce Kapferer, Bj Bertelsen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mar 2009
Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and its potential in situations of violent conflict. The state, otherwise understood as an abstract and transcendent concept in many works on globalization in political philosophy, is instead located and analyzed here...
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ISBN-13: 9781845455835
ISBN-10: 1845455835
Pagini: 338
Dimensiuni: 162 x 24 x 236 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: BERGHAHN BOOKS INC
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Bruce Kapferer is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bergen. He has held academic positions in Zambia, Manchester, Adelaide, London and Queensland and carried out extensive fieldwork in Zambia, Sri Lanka, India, Australia and South Africa. His major publications include The Feast of the Sorcerer (University of Chicago Press) and Legends of People, Myths of State (Smithsonian Institution Press). BjA rn Enge Bertelsen is a PhD student in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. His fieldwork focuses on Mozambique, on violence, war, history, sovereignty and the postcolonial state. His publications include "'It Will Rain until We Are in Power': Floods, Elections and Memory in Mozambique" in Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa (Zed Books).

Cuprins

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Crisis of Power and Reformations of the State in Globalizing Realities Bruce Kapferer and BjA rn Enge Bertelsen SECTION I: TRANSFORMATIONS OF SOVEREIGNTY, EMPIRE, STATE Chapter 1. The Military Industrial Complex and the U.S. Empire June Nash Chapter 2. Post-Soviet Formation of the Russian State and the War in Chechnya. Chaotic Form of Sovereignty Jakob Rigi Chapter 3. Market Forces, Political Violence and War. The End of Nation-states, the Rise of Ethnic and Global Sovereignties? Caroline Ifeka SECTION II: WAR ZONE Chapter 4. Rebel Ravages in Bundibugyo, Uganda's Forgotten District Kirsten Alnaes Chapter 5. The Fear of the Midnight Knock. State Sovereignty and Internal Enemies in Uganda Sverker Finnstrom Chapter 6. Scales of Confrontations, or the Pastoral Staff Frode Storaas SECTION III: SOVEREIGN LOGICS Chapter 7. The Sovereign as Savage. The Pathos of Ethno-nationalist Passion Christopher Taylor Chapter 8. The Paramilitary Function of Transparency in Latin America and Beyond Staffan Lofving Chapter 9. Sorcery and Death Squads. Transformations of State, Sovereignty and Violence in Postcolonial Mozambique BjA rn Enge Bertelsen Chapter 10. Collective Violence and Counter State-building. Algeria 1954-1962 Rasmus Boserup Chapter 11. Malignant Organisms. Continuities of State-run Violence in Rural Liberia Mats Utas Chapter 12. Israel's Wall and the Logic of Encystation. Sovereign Exception or Wild Sovereignty? Glenn Bowman Notes on contributors Bibliography Index