ISBN:
9780857456533
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (338 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Crisis Of The State : War and Social Upheaval
DDC:
303.62
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 empi
Description / Table of Contents:
Title page-Crisis of the State; Contents; Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Section I-Transformations of Sovereignty, Empire, State; Chapter 1-The Military-Inductrial Complex and the Crisis of U.S. Capital; Chapter 2-Post-Soviet Formation of the Russian State and the Was in Chechnya; Chapter 3-Market Forces, Political Violence, and War; Section II-War Zone; Chapter 4-Rebel Ravages in Bundibugyo, Uganda's Forgotten District; Chapter 5-Fear of the Midnight Knock; Chapter 6-The Shepherd's Staff and the AK-47; Section III-Sovereign Logics; Chapter 7-The Sovereign as Savage
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 8-The Paramilitary Function of TransparencyChapter 9-Sorcery and Death Squads; Chapter 10-Collective Violence and Counter-State Building; Chapter 11-Malignant Organisms; Chapter 12-Israel's Wall and the Logic of Encystation; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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