Crisis of the state : war and social upheaval

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Title:

Author:

Kapferer, Bruce.

ISBN:

9781845455835

Publication Information:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Physical Description:

viii, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Introduction: the crisis of power and reformations of the state in globalizing realities / Bruce Kapferer and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen -- The military-industrial complex and the crisis of U.S. capital / June Nash -- Post-Soviet formation of the Russian state and the war in Chechnya: exploring the chaotic form of sovereignty / Jakob Rigi -- Market forces, political violence, and war: the end of nation-states, the rise of ethnic and global sovereignties? / Caroline Ifeka -- Rebel ravages in Bundibugyo, Uganda's forgotten district / Kirsten Alnaes -- Fear of the midnight knock: state sovereignty and internal enemies in Uganda / Sverker Finnström -- The shepherd's staff and the AK-47: pastoralism and handguns in Karamoja, Uganda / Frode Storaas -- The sovereign as savage: the pathos of ethno-nationalist passion / Christopher Taylor -- The paramilitary function of transparency: Guatemala and Colombia / Staffan Löfving -- Sorcery and death squads: transformations of state, sovereignty, and violence in postcolonial Mozambique / Bjørn Enge Bertelsen -- Collective violence and counter-state building: Algeria 1954-62 / Rasmus Alenius Boserup -- Malignant organisms: continuities of state-run violence in rural Liberia / Mats Utas -- Israel's wall and the logic of encystation: sovereign exception or wild sovereignty? / Glenn Bowman.

Subject Term:

Political violence.

State-sponsored terrorism.

Civil-military relations.

War and society.

Added Author:

Kapferer, Bruce.

Bertelsen, Bjørn Enge.

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Summary

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.