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Title States of imagination [electronic resource] : ethnographic explorations of the postcolonial state / edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat.

Imprint Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001.

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Description viii, 423 p.
Series Politics, history, and culture
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Politics, history, and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-413) and index.
Contents "Demonic societies": liberalism, biopolitics, and sovereignty / Mitchell Dean -- Governing population: the integrated child development services program in India / Akhil Gupta -- The battlefield and the prize: ANC's bid to reform the South African State / Steffen Jensen -- Imagining the state as a space: territoriality and the formation of the state in Ecuador / Sarah A. Radcliffe -- The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission: a technique of nation-state formation / Lars Buur -- Reconstructing national identity and renegotiating memory: the work of the TRC / Aletta J. Norval -- Rethinking citizenship: reforming the law in postwar Guatemala / Rachel Sieder -- Governance and state mythologies in Mumbai / Thomas Blom Hansen -- Before history and prior to politics: time, space, and territory in the modern Peruvian nation-state / David Nugent -- Urbanizing the countryside: armed conflicts, state formation, and the politics of place in contemporary Guatemala / Finn Stepputat -- In the name of the state? Schools and teachers in an Andean province / Fiona Wilson -- The captive state: corruption, intelligence agencies, and ethnicity in Pakistan / Oskar Verkaaik -- Public secrets, conscious amnesia, and the celebration of autonomy for Ladakh / Martijn van Beek.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Political anthropology.
Anthropology -- Fieldwork.
Social sciences and state.
Postcolonialism.
Post-communism.
Poststructuralism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958-
Stepputat, Finn.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780822381273
0822381273
0822328011 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822328018 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822327988 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822327981 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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