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

ISBN-13: 9781350125575 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 222 str.

Alison Dundon; Andrew Irving; Richard Vokes

Opis

Shifting States offers an ethnographic examination of state agency and the relationships between surveillance, bureaucracy, infrastructure and personhood, with an impressive selection of empirically rich and theoretically engaging contributions that are relevant across a range of contemporary issues.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I: Ethnographies of Infrastructure: Assemblage, Experimentation, and Mobilization  1. Contingent statecraft: infrastructures, political creativity, and experimentation  2. Materialising the state: the meaning of water infrastructure  3. Driving into the nation-state: driving, roads, and selfhood in a post-socialist milieu 4. State of the grain: grain of the state: the political- and moral-economy of rice in Indonesia 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  6. Awkward biculturalism: embodying ambiguity in New Zealand Army haka  7. Fear of a free lunch: markets, publics, and the would-be gift  Part III: Sensory States, and their Contingent Citizenries  8. Intimate tonguing: the governance of the tongue in smokefree Australia  9. Sensing late-liberal state failure: ecologies of resistance in a post-industrial German city  10. Dialysis in the desert: blood, biomedial technologies, and transformation in Central Australia 11. 'Looking for a nice face': shifting states of marriage and intimate citizenship in Papua New Guinea  12. The state of silence as sensory and social: towards an anthropological appreciation