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Introduction: States of Imagination
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'we are obligated to think that the state is just:' the akp's geographies of islam and the state in turkey
West,W. Jefferson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the importance of dissection in the context of disassembling W. Jefferson West II, and their approach to disassembly. And they propose:
“The State Cannot Protect Us” How Vigilance (Un)makes the State in Western Europe
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examine the production and mobilization of vigilance in the negotiations around practices of informal policing in Italy and Germany and analyzes the relational way in which discourses and practices of vigilantism make and unmake the state.
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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.