ISBN:
978-1-350-12557-5
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 221 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
ASA Monographs 55
Keywords:
Staat Staat und Gesellschaft
;
Infrastruktur
;
Administration
;
Sicherheit
;
Migration
;
Nationalität
;
Politik und Gesellschaft
;
Anthropologie, politische
Abstract:
The volume comprises an ethnographic examination of state agency and the relationships between surveillance, bureaucracy, infrastructure and personhood, making it relevant across a range of contemporary issues. Part I of the volume, 'Dialectics of Security, Surveillance and Struggle', examines trajectories of state organization and security in the context of late-capitalism and technological saturation. Examples here are taken from Aboriginal Australia and urban North America, and include discussions of militarisation, post-colonial settlements, and the politics of migration. Part II, 'Ethnographies of Infrastructure: Assemblage, Experimentation and Mobilization', presents ethnographies of industrial, energy, and transportation infrastructures, and uses these to think about how such large scale projects not only reflect government aspirations, but engender new realms for state-citizen engagements. Examples here are taken from Latin America, Post-Socialist Europe and South-east Asia, and examines issues of contingency, citizenship, and human security. Part III, 'Sensory States, and their Contingent Citizenries', explores the sensual life of state formations, opening up discussion of the politics of embodiment and affect. Examples here are again drawn from Australia, Europe and the Pacific, and include discussions of public health interventions, bio-medical power more broadly, and the politics of intimate relations. Moving seamlessly from the specific to the nation-wide, the volume develops new theoretical understandings of the state and will be of value for scholars of anthropology, political philosophy and political science.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction Richard Vokes and Alison Dundon PART ONE: Dialectics of Security, Surveillance and Struggle. - 1: Indigenous Social policy, Settler Colonial Dependencies and Toxic Lingerings: Living Through Mining and Militarism in the Anthropocene. - Tess Lea, University of Sydney, Australia. - 2: Awkward Biculturalism: Embodying Ambiguity in New Zealand Army Haka. - Nina Harding, Massey University, New Zealand. - 3: Between the States of Exile and Migration: On the Governance of Getting Stuck in Adelaide. - Melinda Hinkson, Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, Australia. - 4: Fear of a Free Lunch: Forbidden Fruits, Would-Be Gift Economies, and the Right to the City. - David Giles, Deakin University, Australia. - PART TWO: Ethnographies of Infrastructure: Assemblage, Experimentation and Mobilization. - 5: Contingent Statecraft: infrastructures, political creativity and experimentation. - Penny Harvey, University of Manchester, UK. - 6: Materialising the State: the Meaning of Water Infrastructure. - Veronica Strang, Durham University, UK. - 7: Driving Against the Nation-State. - Andrew Dawson, University of Melbourne, Australia. - 8: Understanding the Twenty First Century Grain State: Ethnographic Approaches to Food Security in Indonesia. - Graeme Macrae, Massey University, New Zealand and Thomas Reuter, University of Melbourne, Australia. - PART THREE: Sensory States, and their Contingent Citizenries. - 9: Intimate Tonguing: Taste the Power, and Seeing, Hearing and Smelling it, Too. - Simone Dennis, Australian National University, Australia. - 10: Ecologies of Power in the Age of the Anthropocene: On the Politics of Smell in a Post-industrial German City. - Felix Ringel, Durham University, UK. - 11: Dialysis in the Desert: Biopower, Blood, and Biomedical Technologies in Central Australia . - Henrietta Byrne, University of Adelaide, Australia. - 12: Shifting States of Intimacy, Love and Marriage in Papua New Guinea. - Alison Dundon, University of Adelaide, Australia. - 13: The State of Silence as Sensory and Social: Towards an Anthropological Appreciation. - Nigel Rapport, St Andrews University, UK. - Bibliography. - Index
Note:
The 13 chapters in this collection were specially selected from over 400 papers given at the 'Shifting States' conference at the University of Adelaide in Australia in 2017
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