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Governance and State Mythologies in Mumbai
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De facto, displaced, tacit: The sovereign articulations of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the Tibetan Government-in-Exile (TGiE) in exile and propose a conceptually disentangled separation of state, sovereignty, and territory, opening up the theoretical possibility of entities other than territorial states claiming sovereignty.
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Contested sovereignties: Indigenous law, violence and state effects in postwar Guatemala
TL;DR: In this paper, the efforts of organized indigenous peoples to exercise their own forms of law and justice within the context of social violence and impunity that char- acterizes postwar Guatemala are analyzed.
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Bandh politics: crowds, spectacular violence, and sovereignty in India
TL;DR: In 2002, the VHP called for a state-wide bandh to protest the death of Hindu activists by a Muslim mob in Gujarat, India as mentioned in this paper, which entangle multiple audiences, anticipate public violence, invite participation from state and non-state actors, and symbolize popular sovereignty.
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Performing Power, Composing Culture: The State Press in Ghana
TL;DR: The authors examines how African political and discursive forms shape the seemingly universal practices of journalism at a state newspaper in Ghana and finds that the daily work routine, relationships with sources, criteria of newsworthiness, narrative techniques - all are locally determined by Ghanaian standards of discourse and sociality.
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Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference
Akhil Gupta,James Ferguson +1 more
TL;DR: This assumed isomorphism of space, place, and culture results in some significant problems. as mentioned in this paper argues that differences between cultures come about not from their isolation from each other, but because of their connections with each other.
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Governing economic life
Peter Miller,Nikolas Rose +1 more
TL;DR: This article argued that governmentality has a characteristically "programmatic" form, and that it is inextricably bound to the invention and evaluation of technologies that seek to improve government power.
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blurred boundaries: the discourse of corruption, the culture of politics, and the imagined state
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors attempt to do an ethnography of the Indian state by examining the discourses of corruption in contemporary India, focusing on the practices of lower levels of the bureaucracy in a small north Indian town as well as on representations of the state in the mass media.
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Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State (1977)
TL;DR: The state is not the reality which stands behind the mask of political practice as discussed by the authors, but the mask which prevents us from seeing political practice as it is, it is itselfthe mask that prevents our seeing political practices as they are.
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the romance of resistance: tracing transformations of power through Bedouin women
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that resistance should be used as a diagnostic of power, and show what the forms of Awlad ‘Ali Bedouin women's resistance can reveal about the historically changing relations of power in which they are enmeshed as they become increasingly incorporated into the Egyptian state and economy.