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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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A moral economy of corruption in Africa
TL;DR: In this article, six general theses on corruption in Africa, which place it within a broader "corruption complex" and emphasise its routine nature, the stigmatisation of corruption despite the absence of effective sanctions, its apparent irreversibility, the lack of correlation with regime types and its legitimacy to its perpetrators, are discussed.
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Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico
Gilbert M. Joseph,Daniel Nugent +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Alonso et al. present the first book to systematically examine the relationship between popular cultures and state formation in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Mexico, focusing on the role of peasants and peasant rebellions in Mexico's past.
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Provisional notes on the postcolony
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define the "exercise du pouvoir dans les etats africains depuis l'lndependance" as "a ete marque par un penchant for les ceremonies and par un esprit d'apparat plus surprenant quand le caractere and combien illusoire sont des grands travaux realises par ces etats".
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Law: A Map of Misreading. Toward a Postmodern Conception of Law
TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that law has also undergone three metamorphoses in the modern era, but the sequence of the steps has been reversed, and that the lion is the spirit of negativity that substitutes 'I will' for 'thou shalt'.
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The Politics of Space, Time and Substance: State Formation, Nationalism, and Ethnicity
TL;DR: The relationship between common sense categories of experience and analytical concepts developed in order to understand the processes that produce such categories and effect their taken-for-grantedness is discussed in this paper.