Experiencing the State (Oxford India Paperbacks) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198063547 ISBN 13: 9780198063544

Publisher: OUP India, 2009

Synopsis

This collection of essays by 13 well-known contributors departs from a conventional analysis of the state that universalizes and standardizes what the state is, does, and means. The contributors engage state and stateness as it is encountered in everyday life, ranging from village and urban life to big dams, war, torture, hospital treatment, cinema attendance, and art exhibitions. The essays locate the state in time, space, and circumstance so that it is contingent and evocative rather than definitive and authoritative.
The study discusses formative discourses on the state, what we may think or say about the state, and what images are evoked by its various manifestations through social and cultural forms. This volume begins with a non-essentialist perspective on state formation, and concludes with an account of how the state is experienced in the post-9/11 world scenario, in India and South Asia, the US, Europe, including the former Soviet Union, and the Far East. The contributors include James C. Scott, Arundhati Roy, Sudipta Kaviraj, Lloyd I. Rudolph, Philip Oldenburg, and Paul R. Brass.

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About the Author

Lloyd I. Rudolph is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

John Kurt Jacobsen is Research Associate, Program on International Politics, Economics and Security at the University of Chicago.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP India
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198063547
• ISBN 13: 9780198063544
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 412
• Editor: Rudolph Lloyd, Jacobsen John Kurt