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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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The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and their Critics
TL;DR: The state has always been difficult to define and its boundary with society appears elusive, porous, and mobile as discussed by the authors, and this elusiveness should not be overcome by sharper definitions, but explored as a clue to the state's nature.
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The death of the social? Re-figuring the territory of government
TL;DR: This article argued that the social is no longer a key zone, traget and objective of strategies of government, arguing that economic relations are no longer easily understood as organized as organized across a single bounded national economy.
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Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal
TL;DR: In this paper, L'A. etudie les effets de ce qu'il appelle le refus ethnographique concernant une serie d'etudes consacree a la resistance.
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What is Legal Pluralism
TL;DR: In this article, what is legal pluralism? The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law: Vol. 18, No. 24, pp. 1-55.
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The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India
TL;DR: The authors argued that the Hindu nationalist movement has successfully articulated the anxieties and desires of the large and amorphous Indian middle class, which attracted privileged groups fearing encroachment on their dominant positions but also impoverished groups seeking recognition around a majoritarian rhetoric of cultural pride, order, and national strength.