Locating the State: Between Region and History
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | 2Central European University, Vienna, Austria, 1Social Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA; email: [email protected] |
| ANO | 2024 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Annual Review of Anthropology |
| ISSN | 0084-6570 |
| E-ISSN | 1545-4290 |
| EDITORA | Publisher 15279 |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-anthro-101819-110304 |
| CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
Resumo
If anthropology once concerned itself with politics in stateless societies outside Euro-America over and against prevailing Euro-American political theory, today anthropologists see the state at work everywhere. Anthropologists have sought to trouble spatial metaphors of state power that assumed, among other things, its centralization and the unitary character of sovereignty. Locating the state through an attendant question of region, we explore recent literatures on everyday state practices in Central and Eastern Europe and South Asia to show how different regional histories and configurations of knowledge continue to structure our assumptions about the state and its functions as well as the grammar of our descriptions. We suggest that the state could prove to be a useful optic for the study of region, which provides an alternative to an overly rigid local/global dichotomy that continues to shadow our theorizations.