Peter Gelderloos

Worshiping Power (eBook, ePUB)

An Anarchist View of Early State Formation

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Produktbeschreibung

Where did the state come from? Where is it going? This study in politogenesis shakes up the status quo.

Worshiping Power cuts through inadequate theories of early state formation to offer a new analysis of the roles that kinship, religious practice, and commerce have played in stifling self-organization. Gelderloos's partisan approach to human social complexity is highly innovative, yet comprehensible to the layperson. A formidable assault on a social institution whose contemporary ubiquity renders it almost invisible.

Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist writer originally from Virginia. He is author of How Nonviolence Protects the State, Consensus, and Anarchy Works .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AK Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849352659
• Artikelnr.: 45488168

Autorenporträt

Peter Gelderloos: Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist writer originally from Virginia. He is author of How Nonviolence Protects the State, Consensus, and Anarchy Works.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I. Take Me to Your Leader: The Politics of Alien Invasion
II. Ze Germans: A State-Making Technology
III. Save Me from Yourself: the Statist Spread of Salvation Religions
IV. Sleeper States and Imperial Imaginaries: Authority's Afterlife and
Reincarnation
V. The Modern State: A Revolutionary Hybrid
VI. Zomia: A Topography of Positionality
VII. Chiefdoms and Megacommunities: On the Stability of Non-State
Hierarchies
VIII. They Ain't Got No Class: Surpluses and the State
IX. All in the Family: Kinship and Statehood
X. Building the Walls Higher: From Raiding to Warfare
XI. Staff and Sun: A New Symbolic Order
XII. A Forager's Mecca: Dreams of Power
XIII. Clastres and Cairo: Learning from States