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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"anthropology of the state"”.
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Impossible Terrain: An Ethnography Of Policing In Atlantic City, New Jersey
… dissertation, Impossible Terrain: An Ethnography of Policing in Atlantic City, New Jersey, I develop a novel conceptualization of the “productivity of policing” in Racial Capitalism. My analysis is in part structured by a problematization of the common tendency within Police Studies scholarship to …
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Seeing the State with Transgender People: Gender, Caste, and Neoliberal Development in Kerala, India
This dissertation examines the entanglements of transgender identity and state power in contemporary Kerala, a southwestern state of India. It asks what trans-queer people can tell us about the changing shape of postcolonial developmentalist governance and the welfare state in the late-capitalist …
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Reforming the state from within: public servants and knowledge transfer in post-2008 Ecuador
This thesis examines how public servants have experienced rapid state reform in Ecuador since the country’s 2008 Constitution which signalled unprecedented, radical change for the state. It traces how plans for transforming by educating public servants were delivered through the Institute of Higher …