Experiencing the State

Herausgeber: Rudolph, Lloyd I; Jacobsen, John Kurt

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays by 13 well-known social scientists and commentators examines the modern state from different inter-disciplinary and thematic perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198063544
• ISBN-10: 0198063547
• Artikelnr.: 32087739

Autorenporträt

Lloyd I. Rudolph is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Chicago. John Kurt Jacobsen is Research Associate, Program on International Politics, Economics and Security at the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction - Framing the Inquiry: Historicizing the Modern State
(Lloyd I. Rudolph and John Kurt Jacobsen); EXPERIENCING HIGH
MODERNIST STATES IN AMERICA, INDIA, AND THE SOVIET UNION;
* 1.: High Modernist Social Engineering: The Case of the Tennessee
Valley Authority (James C. Scott);
* 2.: The Cost of Living: The Narmada Dam and the Indian State
(Arundhati Roy);
* 3.: Understanding the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Hyung-Min-Joo);
* 4.: How Political Scientists Experienced India's Development State
(Paul R. Brass); EXPERIENCING THE STATE FROM BELOW IN VILLAGE INDIA
AND GERMANY AND URBAN KARACHI;
* 5.: Experiencing Reunification: An East German Village after the Fall
of the Wall (Helmuth Berking);
* 6.: The Dynamics of Bureaucratic Rule in Pakistan: A Personal View
(Tasneem Ahmed Siddiqui);
* 7.: Face to Face with the Indian State: A Grass Roots View (Philip
Oldenburg); EXPERIENCING THE STATE FROM OUTSIDE: PSYCHIATRY, FILM,
AND ART;
* 8.: Experiencing Care: Psychotherapy and NHS Mental Health Reform in
Britain (Nicholas Temple);
* 9.: In Cahoots? Cinema, Cynicism, and Citizenship (John Kurt
Jacobsen);
* 10.: Forest of Logos: Empire of Signs (Patricia Bickers);
EMANCIPATORY RESISTANCE;
* 11.: Gandhi's Trial and India's Colonial State (Sudipta Kaviraj);
* 12.: Experiencing Repressive States in America and the Koreas (Bruce
Cumings); Conclusion - Sovereignty Unbound: Experiencing the State
after 9/11 (Lloyd I. Rudolph and John Kurt Jacobsen); Notes on
Contributors