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

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

Dundon, Alison
Vokes, Richard

Hardcover

Series: Asa Monographs

AnthropologyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1350125571
ISBN13: 9781350125575
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 30 2020
Pages: 222
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

Shifting States draws on a rich history of anthropological theorising on all kinds of states - from the pre- to the post- industrial - and explores topics as diverse as bureaucracy, infrastructure, surveillance, securitization, and public health.

As we enter the third decade of the twentieth century, there is a growing sense that 'the state' is in crisis everywhere. Although the nature of this perceived crisis varies from place to place, everywhere it is seen to have been caused by some combination of the inter-related forces of 'globalisation', of successive economic shocks, and of the rise of social media-fuelled populist movements. Yet, conversely, there is also a creeping perception that state power is becoming more pervasive in its reach, and in its effects, in ways which make it ever more imminent to the material worlds in which we live, more fundamental to the ways in which we conceive of the future, and more foundational to our very sense of self. How might we try to make sense of, and to mediate, these apparently contradictory impressions?

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