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Introduction: States of Imagination
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5.7 Educational Policy in Historical Perspective: Interpreting the Macro and the Micro Politics of Schooling
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the production of a documentary corpus for the study of educational policy, the use and interpretation of archival material, and the role theories and categories play in that interpretation.
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Schools, ritual economies, and the expanding state : the changing roles of Lao Buddhist monks as "traditional intellectuals"
TL;DR: In 2004, Mettathamma and Ladwig as mentioned in this paper interviewed a member of staff of UNICEF in Vientiane to interview a Lao member of the Lao Buddhist Fellowship Organization.
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State-Sponsored History After 1945: An Introduction
Berber Bevernage,Nico Wouters +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present state-sponsored history as a broad analytical concept that can integrate existing strands of different literature dealing with the construction of history and public memory as well as contribute to the study of the modern state.
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‘Creature of statute’: Legal bureaucracy and the performance of professionalism in Johannesburg
TL;DR: The authors examines how law is performed in bureaucratic encounters, and how this shapes the everyday relations that make legal bureaucrats as middle-class professionals, in South Africa's Master of the High Court.
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The Lifeblood of the Cyborg: Or, the shared organism of a modern energy corporation and a small Northern Territory town
TL;DR: The Blacktip gas project in the Northern Territory of Australia has been investigated in this article, where the authors apply the concept of the assemblage to analyse the Blacktip project as a complex network that expresses broader social power relations.
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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.