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Berghahn Books Crisis of the State War and Social Upheaval 2009 Edition by Bruce Kapferer, Bjorn Enge Bertelsen
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. Table of contents :- AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Crisis of Power and Reformations of the State in Globalizing RealitiesBruce Kapferer and Bjorn Enge BertelsenSECTION I: TRANSFORMATIONS OF SOVEREIGNTY, EMPIRE, STATEChapter 1. The Military Industrial Complex and the U.S. EmpireJune NashChapter 2. Post-Soviet Formation of the Russian State and the War in Chechnya. Chaotic Form of SovereigntyJakob RigiChapter 3. Market Forces, Political Violence and War. The End of Nation-states, the Rise of Ethnic and Global Sovereignties?Caroline IfekaSECTION II: WAR ZONEChapter 4. Rebel Ravages in Bundibugyo, Uganda's Forgotten DistrictKirsten AlnaesChapter 5. The Fear of the Midnight Knock. State Sovereignty and Internal Enemies in UgandaSverker FinnstroemChapter 6. Scales of Confrontations, or the Pastoral StaffFrode StoraasSECTION III: SOVEREIGN LOGICSChapter 7. The Sovereign as Savage. The Pathos of Ethno-nationalist PassionChristopher TaylorChapter 8. The Paramilitary Function of Transparency in Latin America and BeyondStaffan LoefvingChapter 9. Sorcery and Death Squads. Transformations of State, Sovereignty and Violence in Postcolonial MozambiqueBjorn Enge BertelsenChapter 10. Collective Violence and Counter State-building. Algeria 1954-1962Rasmus BoserupChapter 11. Malignant Organisms. Continuities of State-run Violence in Rural LiberiaMats UtasChapter 12. Israel's Wall and the Logic of Encystation. Sovereign Exception or Wild Sovereignty?Glenn BowmanNotes on contributorsBibliographyIndex