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Shifting States: New Perspectives on Security, Infrastructure, and Political Affect book cover

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Shifting States New Perspectives on Security, Infrastructure, and Political Affect

Edited By Alison Dundon, Richard Vokes Copyright 2021
234 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Shifting States draws on a rich history of anthropological theorising on all kinds of states – from the pre- to the post- industrial – and explores topics as diverse as bureaucracy, infrastructure, surveillance, securitization, and public health. As we enter the third decade of the twentieth century, there is a growing sense that ‘the state’ is in crisis everywhere. Although the... Read more

Introduction

Part I: Ethnographies of Infrastructure: Assemblage, Experimentation, and Mobilization

1. Contingent statecraft: infrastructures, political creativity, and experimentation　

Penny Harvey

2. Materialising the state: the meaning of water infrastructure

Veronica Strang

3. Driving into the nation-state: driving, roads, and selfhood in a post-socialist milieu

Andrew Dawson 

4. State of the grain: grain of the state: the political- and moral-economy of rice in Indonesia

Graeme MacRae and Thomas Reuter 

Part II: Dialectics of Security, Surveillance and Struggle

5. Indigenous social policy, settler colonial dependencies, and toxic lingerings: living through mining and militarism in the Anthropocene

Tess Lea

6. Awkward biculturalism: embodying ambiguity in New Zealand Army haka

Nina Harding

7. Fear of a free lunch: markets, publics, and the would-be gift

David Boarder Giles

Part III: Sensory States, and their Contingent Citizenries

8. Intimate tonguing: the governance of the tongue in smokefree Australia

Simone Dennis

9. Sensing late-liberal state failure: ecologies of resistance in a post-industrial German city

Felix Ringel

10. Dialysis in the desert: blood, biomedial technologies, and transformation in Central Australia

Henrietta Byrne

11. 'Looking for a nice face': shifting states of marriage and intimate citizenship in Papua New Guinea

Alison Dundon

12. The state of silence as sensory and social: towards an anthropological appreciation

Nigel Rapport

Biography

Alison Dundon is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Richard Vokes is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia.

 

 

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