The Encrypted State
Delusion and Displacement in the Peruvian Andes
What happens when a seemingly rational state becomes paranoid and delusional? The Encrypted State engages in a close analysis of political disorder to shed new light on the concept of political stability. The book focuses on a crisis of rule in mid-20th-century Peru, a period when officials believed they had lost the ability to govern and communicated in secret code to protect themselves from imaginary subversives. The Encrypted State engages the notion of sacropolitics-the politics of mass group sacrifice-to make sense of state delusion. Nugent interrogates the forces that variously enable or disable organized political subjection, and the r…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5036-0972-3
- EAN: 9781503609723
- Produktnummer: 31717233
- Verlag: Stanford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 8'838 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
David Nugent is Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. His previous books include Locating Capital in Time and Space (SUP, 2002) and Modernity at the Edge of Empire (SUP, 1997).
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