Crisis of the state : war and social upheaval / edited by Bruce Kapferer and Bjrn Enge Bertelsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kapferer, Bruce.

Bertelsen, Bjrn Enge.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political violence.

State-sponsored terrorism.

Civil-military relations.

War and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

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 empir

Contents:

Introduction: the crisis of power and reformations of the state in globalizing realities / Bruce Kapferer and Bjrn 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 Finnstrom

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 Lofving

Sorcery and death squads: transformations of state, sovereignty, and violence in postcolonial Mozambique / Bjrn 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612627682

9780857456540

0857456547

9781282627680

1282627686

9781845459093

1845459091

OCLC:

645100511