Crisis of the State : : War and Social Upheaval / / ed. by Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, Bruce Kapferer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Alnaes, Kirsten,; Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge,; Boserup, Rasmus Alenius,; Bowman, Glenn,; Finnström, Sverker,; Ifeka, Caroline,; Kapferer, Bruce,; Löfving, Staffan,; Nash, June,; Rigi, Jakob,; Storaas, Frode,; Taylor, Christopher,; Utas, Mats,
• HerausgeberIn: Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge,; Kapferer, Bruce,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (338 p.)

Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and its potential in situations of violent conflict. The state, otherwise understood as an abstract and transcendent concept in many works on globalization in political philosophy, is instead located and analyzed here as an embedded part of lived reality. This relationship to the state is exposed as an integral factor to the formation of the social – whether in Africa, the Middle East, South America or the United States. Through the examination of these particular empirical settings of war or war-like situations, the book further argues for the continued importance of the state in shifting social and political circumstances. In doing so, the authors provide a critical contribution to debates within a broad spectrum of fields that are concerned with the future of the state, the nature of sovereignty, and globalization.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES AND FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction THE CRISIS OF POWER AND REFORMATIONS OF THE STATE IN GLOBALIZING REALITIES -- Section I TRANSFORMATIONS OF SOVEREIGNTY, EMPIRE, STATE -- Chapter One THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND THE CRISIS OF U.S. CAPITAL -- Chapter Two POST-SOVIET FORMATION OF THE RUSSIAN STATE AND THE WAR IN CHECHNYA Exploring the Chaotic Form of Sovereignty -- Chapter Three MARKET FORCES, POLITICAL VIOLENCE, AND WAR The End of Nation-States, the Rise of Ethnic and Global Sovereignties? -- Chapter Four REBEL RAVAGES IN BUNDIBUGYO, UGANDA’S FORGOTTEN DISTRICT -- Chapter Five FEAR OF THE MIDNIGHT KNOCK State Sovereignty and Internal Enemies in Uganda -- Chapter Six THE SHEPHERD’S STAFF AND THE AK-47 Pastoralism and Handguns in Karamoja, Uganda -- Section III SOVEREIGN LOGICS -- Chapter Seven THE SOVEREIGN AS SAVAGE The Pathos of Ethno-Nationalist Passion -- Chapter Eight THE PARAMILITARY FUNCTION OF TRANSPARENCY Guatemala and Colombia -- Chapter Nine SORCERY AND DEATH SQUADS Transformations of State, Sovereignty, and Violence in Postcolonial Mozambique -- Chapter Ten COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE AND COUNTER-STATE BUILDING Algeria 1954–62 -- Chapter Eleven MALIGNANT ORGANISMS Continuities of State-Run Violence in Rural Liberia -- Chapter Twelve ISRAEL’S WALL AND THE LOGIC OF ENCYSTATION Sovereign Exception or Wild Sovereignty? -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX