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Introduction: States of Imagination
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Ethnic Domination under Liberal Democracy in Sri Lanka
TL;DR: The authors argue that ethnic domination is typically understood in terms of a liberal normative framework, through the lens of the state, or primarily in the one-sided coercive power of the dominant group, and emphasize the importance of looking into inner processes, moral frameworks, and the way these are acted upon by contending ethnic groups.
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Puerto Santander, cuna de la cultura guayupe. Patrimonialización y formación del Estado en el Departamento del Meta
TL;DR: The authors describe and analiza la patrimonialización de una serie de piezas arqueologicas, for analizar algunas dimensiones de la formacion local del...
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The emperor, the lion and the peacock: Monuments and contested state sovereignty in contemporary Ethiopia
Asebe Regassa,Rony Emmenegger +1 more
TL;DR: In 2018, Abiy Ahmed renovated the Imperial Palace in Ethiopia's political center, Addis Ababa to turn it into a heritage site of significance for nation-state building as discussed by the authors , which was widely interpreted as a sign for the end of authoritarian rule and political tensions in the country.
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The State as a Battlefield
TL;DR: Stronen as discussed by the authors discusses how anthropological approaches to studying the state help us better understand the Venezuelan state under Hugo Chavez, and how popular sector activists resorted to habituated practices of drawing on personalized networks in order to access and transform the state in accordance with the ideals of participative politics from below.
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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.