The Anthropology of the State. A Reader

Introduction: Rethinking theories in an age of globalization; Theoretical genealogies (Max Weber, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser; Philip Abrams, Michel Foucault, Nikolas Rose); Bureaucracy and governmentality (Timothy Mitchell, Wendy Brown, Akhil Gupta); Planning and development (James C. Scott, James Ferguson); Violence, law, and citizenship (Catherine Lutz, Susan Bibler Coutin), Anannya Bhattacharjee); popular culture (Stuart Hall, Achille Mbembe).