States of imagination : ethnographic explorations of the postcolonial state / / edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat.

• Superior document: Politics, history, and culture
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958-; Stepputat, Finn.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: e-Duke books scholarly collection.; Politics, history, and culture.
• Physical Description: viii, 423 p.

Table of 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.