States of imagination : ethnographic explorations of the postcolonial state / / edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat.
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| Superior document: | Politics, history, and culture |
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| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Politics, history, and culture. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 423 p. |
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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.