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Introduction: States of Imagination
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Hybridisation in a Case of Diamond Theft in Rural Sierra Leone
TL;DR: In this article, a case of diamond theft in rural Sierra Leone is investigated, where the authors focus on processes of hybridisation through the enactment and performativity of authority, which is an analytical move from preconceived cultural and political entities to subject and the simultaneous quality of how he or she assembles and projects authority.
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Procesos violentos de formación del Estado en los inicios del Frente Nacional en el Tolima, Colombia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the continuo procesos violentos de formacion del Estado durante los primeros gobiernos del Frente Nacional in el departamento del Tolima, Colombia.
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Reading the State as a Multi-Identity Formation: The Touch and Feel of Equality Governance
TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between touch (the haptic) and equality governance from three angles: how a sense of touch, figuratively and practically, gets deployed within equality governance, and to what questions and ways of thinking about the state does this direct us?
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Labour power and bossing: Local leadership formation and the party-state in ‘middle’ Bangladesh:
TL;DR: Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, the authors focuses on how public order and authority is produced in "middle Bangladesh" by investigating the political emergence and political persona of political leaders.
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Expecting justice : struggling with the indeterminate between ideals and practices
Heike Drotbohm,Eva Riedke +1 more
TL;DR: The authors contextualized Jacobs' work as a contribution to a body of anthropological research concerned with theorizing the state, and more importantly concerned with closing the analytical gap between the two worlds.
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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.