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Introduction: States of Imagination
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Kenya and International Security: Enabling Globalisation, Stabilising ‘Stateness’, and Deploying Enforcement
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze how the Kenyan government balances what seem to be multiple security agendas, ranging from following a responsibility to protect, to pursuing economic self-interest, to executing international counterterrorism agendas.
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Beyond spheres of influence: the myth of the state and Russia’s seductive power in Kyrgyzstan
TL;DR: In this article, a critical deconstruction of the ontological and epistemological assumptions inherent in the concept of "spheres of influence" is presented, and an alternative reading of power and the state is proposed, drawing on the concepts of seductive power at a distance and Timothy Mitchell's "state effect".
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The Politics of Order and Disturbance: Public authority, sovereignty, and violent contestation in South Asia
Bart Klem,Bert Suykens +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored the connections between public authority and violent contestation in a variety of South Asian contexts and found that there is often no shortage of rule or purported rulers to be found in this unruliness.
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Feeding Secularism: Consuming Halal among the Malays in London
TL;DR: Fischer as mentioned in this paper argues that in the eyes of many Muslims in Britain, this proliferation of halal calls attention to a form of impotent state secularism: the more the culture of Islamic consumption asserts itself, the more their incapacity to define what is legitimate in the community's life is felt.
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Taking the matter into your own hands: ethnographic insights into societal violence and the reconfigurations of the state in contemporary Turkey
Erol Saglam,Erol Saglam +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the changing configurations of statehood in the Turkish context through an exploration of men's engagements with conspiratorial narratives, vigilantism, and extralegal violencings.
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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.