Bruce (Hrsg.) Kapferer

Crisis of the State: War and Social Upheaval

Buch

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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Bertelsen, Bj (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-84545-583-5
EAN: 9781845455835
Produktnummer: 19827998
Verlag: Berghahn Books Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 338 S.
Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.0 cm x D2.3 cm 590 g
Gewicht: 590

Über den Autor

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Bergen University. His fieldwork focuses on Mozambique, on violence, war, history, sovereignty and the postcolonial state. His publications include 'It Will Rain until We Are in Power': Floods, Elections and Memory in Mozambique in Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa (Zed Books).