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Introduction: States of Imagination
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Twilight Institutions: Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa
TL;DR: Lund et al. as mentioned in this paper discussed the role of public authority and local politics in Africa and proposed the Twilight Institutions, a set of institutions that can be used to reorder society.
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Documents and bureaucracy
TL;DR: The authors surveys anthropological and other social research on bureaucratic documents and argues that documents are not simply instruments of bureaucratic organizations, but rather are constitutive of bureaucratic rules, ideologies, knowledge, practices, subjectivities, objects, outcomes, even the organizations themselves.
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For ethnography in political geography: Experiencing and re-imagining Ferghana Valley boundary closures
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use ethnographic participant observation, a method largely neglected by political geographers, to highlight discrepancies between elite and everyday political geographical imaginations, which is parallel to, but not a replacement of, textual analyses informed by critical social theory.
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Embodying the nation-state:Canada's response to human smuggling
TL;DR: The authors argue that a shift in the scale of analysis of the nation-state, from national and global scales to the finer scale of the body reveals processes, relations, and experiences otherwise obscured.
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Frontiers and popular nationhood: geographies of identity in the 1995 Ecuador-Peru border dispute
TL;DR: In this paper, an examination is made of the multiple geographies of identities which were articulated and negotiated during the border dispute between Ecuador and Pern in January and February 1995, an incident which became known as Tiwintza.
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Proto-governmentalization and the historical formation of organizational subjectivity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the historical formation of organizational subjectivity using Foucault's concept of government and Elias' concept of civilization, as well as the way their ideas might be interrelated and extended in analysing organizational life.
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Governing Chinese bodies: the Significance of studies in the concept of govermentality for the analysis of goverment in China
TL;DR: In this paper, a preliminary investigation into the possibilities of utilizing some of the methods and concepts developed under the auspices of "govermentality" in a Chinese context is conducted.
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Truth and Reconciliation: the Birth of the Present and the Reworking of History
TL;DR: The Birth of the Present and the Reworking of History: Truth and Reconciliation: the Reordering of History as discussed by the authors, is a book about the birth of the present and the reordering of history.
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Religion and identity in India
TL;DR: In contrast to the urban elite who mostly operated in political life according to the norms of modern Western politics, other groups saw politics in terms of caste, religious and linguistic allegiances as discussed by the authors.