Stategraphy : toward a relational anthropology of the state / edited by Tatjana Thelen, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thelen, Tatjana, editor.

Vetters, Larissa, editor.

Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von, editor.

Series:

Studies in Social Analysis ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political anthropology.

State, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; Oxford, England : Berghahn Books, 2018.

Summary:

Stategraphy—the ethnographic exploration of relational modes, boundary work, and forms of embeddedness of actors—offers crucial analytical avenues for researching the state. By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations spanning from Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the United Kingdom and France. Fusing grounded empirical studies with rigorous theorizing, the volume provides new perspectives to broader related debates in social research and political analysis.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction Stategraphy: Relational Modes, Boundary Work, and Embeddedness

Chapter 1 Contingent Statehood Clientelism and Civic Engagement as Relational Modalities in Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina

Chapter 2 The State, Legal Rigor, and the Poor The Daily Practice of Welfare Control

Chapter 3 Relationships, Practices, and Images of the Local State in Rural Russia

Chapter 4 Acts of Assistance Navigating the Interstices of the British State with the Help of Non-profit Legal Advisers

Chapter 5 Images of Care, Boundaries of the State Volunteering and Civil Society in Czech Health Care

Chapter 6 State Kinning and Kinning the State in Serbian Elder Care Programs

Chapter 7 Workings of the State Administrative Lists, European Union Food Aid, and the Local Practices of Distribution in Rural Romania

Chapter 8 Creating the State Locally through Welfare Provision Two Mayors, Two Welfare Regimes in Rural Hungary

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-397-X

1-78533-701-7

OCLC:

1048621317