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…mehr
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 empirical settings of war or war-like situations, the book further argues for the continued importance of the state in shifting social and political circumstances. In doing so, the authors provide a critical contribution to debates within a broad spectrum of fields that are concerned with the future of the state, the nature of sovereignty, and globalization.
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Bergen University. His fieldwork focuses on Mozambique, on violence, war, history, sovereignty and the postcolonial state. His publications include "'It Will Rain until We Are in Power': Floods, Elections and Memory in Mozambique" in Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa (Zed Books).
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Acknowledgements Introduction: The Crisis of Power and Reformations of the State in Globalizing Realities Bruce Kapferer and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen SECTION I: TRANSFORMATIONS OF SOVEREIGNTY, EMPIRE, STATE Chapter 1. The Military Industrial Complex and the U.S. Empire June Nash Chapter 2. Post-Soviet Formation of the Russian State and the War in Chechnya. Chaotic Form of Sovereignty Jakob Rigi Chapter 3. Market Forces, Political Violence and War. The End of Nation-states, the Rise of Ethnic and Global Sovereignties? Caroline Ifeka SECTION II: WAR ZONE Chapter 4. Rebel Ravages in Bundibugyo, Uganda's Forgotten District Kirsten Alnaes Chapter 5. The Fear of the Midnight Knock. State Sovereignty and Internal Enemies in Uganda Sverker Finnström Chapter 6. Scales of Confrontations, or the Pastoral Staff Frode Storaas SECTION III: SOVEREIGN LOGICS Chapter 7. The Sovereign as Savage. The Pathos of Ethno-nationalist Passion Christopher Taylor Chapter 8. The Paramilitary Function of Transparency in Latin America and Beyond Staffan Löfving Chapter 9. Sorcery and Death Squads. Transformations of State, Sovereignty and Violence in Postcolonial Mozambique Bjørn Enge Bertelsen Chapter 10. Collective Violence and Counter State-building. Algeria 1954-1962 Rasmus Boserup Chapter 11. Malignant Organisms. Continuities of State-run Violence in Rural Liberia Mats Utas Chapter 12. Israel's Wall and the Logic of Encystation. Sovereign Exception or Wild Sovereignty? Glenn Bowman Notes on contributors Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Introduction: The Crisis of Power and Reformations of the State in Globalizing Realities Bruce Kapferer and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen SECTION I: TRANSFORMATIONS OF SOVEREIGNTY, EMPIRE, STATE Chapter 1. The Military Industrial Complex and the U.S. Empire June Nash Chapter 2. Post-Soviet Formation of the Russian State and the War in Chechnya. Chaotic Form of Sovereignty Jakob Rigi Chapter 3. Market Forces, Political Violence and War. The End of Nation-states, the Rise of Ethnic and Global Sovereignties? Caroline Ifeka SECTION II: WAR ZONE Chapter 4. Rebel Ravages in Bundibugyo, Uganda's Forgotten District Kirsten Alnaes Chapter 5. The Fear of the Midnight Knock. State Sovereignty and Internal Enemies in Uganda Sverker Finnström Chapter 6. Scales of Confrontations, or the Pastoral Staff Frode Storaas SECTION III: SOVEREIGN LOGICS Chapter 7. The Sovereign as Savage. The Pathos of Ethno-nationalist Passion Christopher Taylor Chapter 8. The Paramilitary Function of Transparency in Latin America and Beyond Staffan Löfving Chapter 9. Sorcery and Death Squads. Transformations of State, Sovereignty and Violence in Postcolonial Mozambique Bjørn Enge Bertelsen Chapter 10. Collective Violence and Counter State-building. Algeria 1954-1962 Rasmus Boserup Chapter 11. Malignant Organisms. Continuities of State-run Violence in Rural Liberia Mats Utas Chapter 12. Israel's Wall and the Logic of Encystation. Sovereign Exception or Wild Sovereignty? Glenn Bowman Notes on contributors Bibliography Index
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