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Introduction: States of Imagination
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Bureacrats and Colonos: State Formation in Southeastern Colombia Funcionários e colonos: a formação do estado no sul-oriente colombiano
TL;DR: From an anthropological approach to the study of the state, the authors discusses the process of local state formation in southeastern Colombia from the analysis of the interactions arising between officials and beneficiaries of agricultural policies implemented in this region be tween 1960 and 1980.
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Crossing the Conflict Divide: De facto Borders, State Belonging, and the Changing Dynamics of Enemy Relations in Abkhazia
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examine the changing dynamics of enemy relations and state belonging in the contest of contested, de facto statehood, and argue that while it can be certain limitations of life in a de facto states that motivate people to cross the conflict divide, it is simultaneously their belonging to the Abkhazian state that equips them with the confidence to encounter the "enemy".
El Estado legislando, relevando, mapeando. Una etnografía de una política estatal de mapeo de las tierras indígenas en Salta (Argentina) 1
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe and analyze different moments of a public policy oriented to delimit and produce knowledge about land and territories occupied by communities and indigenous peoples from the country, since ethnographic materials from field work realized in the northwest of Salta, Argentina.
Community Case Workers in Zimbabwe
TL;DR: In this article , the authors consider how the image of a caring state is both performed and contested by the actual workings of Zimbabwe's volunteer community case workers (CCWs), according to their policy mandate, the volunteers' commitment to registering "the vulnerable" and mobilising them for different welfare project purposes is based on an assumed affective closeness to their communities.
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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.