Companion to the Anthropology of Politics

David Nugent is Professor of Anthropology, Emory University. He is President-Elect, American Ethnological Society and North American Editor of the journal Critique of Anthropology. He is the author of Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes (1997), and the editor of Locating Capitalism in Time and Space (2002). Joan Vincent is Professor of Anthropology Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is author of numerous books and encyclopedia articles on political anthropology. Her works include Anthropology and Politics (1990, reissued 1995) and The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique (Blackwell, 2002).

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year“A magnificent collection. The most engaged and imaginative writing that anthropology has to offer, disclosing the inherently political nature of everyday life.” Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley “What is impressive about this collection is the way many authors take received ideas from political science, political philosophy, cultural studies, or world systems theory and, by subjecting them to ethnographic scrutiny, transform them in new and powerful ways. Anthropology makes a difference.” Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago "The Blackwell Companions to Anthropology, of which this volume is the second to appear, are set fair to blow cobwebs from dormant minds ... this volume is an exemplar of scholarship at its meticulous, dynamic, and demanding best ... we have here an erudite analysis of problems of direct relevance to the lives of every individual person on our planet, and an inspired exploration of “things to come”. This is scholarly, sophisticated, unsparing, courageous political thinking, far removed from the shams, slogans, shibboleths, stupidities, and silliness of much of the political comment and conditioning purveyed by our mass media – even by our elected “representatives” ... This is an admirable work that will fertilise the rugged field of the anthropology of politics for decades to come. All academic libraries need it. It would also be a salutary Christmas present choice for our pet political representative, an earnest hope of a positive revolution in political theory and practice.” Reference Reviews

• Synopsis of Contents viiiPreface xvNotes on Contributors xviIntroduction 1Joan Vincent1 Affective States 4Ann Laura Stoler2 After Socialism 21Katherine Verdery3 AIDS 37Brooke Grundfest Schoepf4 Citizenship 55Aihwa Ong5 Cosmopolitanism 69Ulf Hannerz6 Development 86Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud7 Displacement 107Elizabeth Colson8 Feminism 121Malathi de Alwis9 Gender, Race, and Class 135Micaela di Leonardo10 Genetic Citizenship 152Deborah Heath, Rayna Rapp, and Karen-Sue Taussig11 The Global City 168Saskia Sassen12 Globalization 179Jonathan Friedman13 Governing States 198David Nugent14 Hegemony 216Gavin Smith15 Human Rights 231Richard Ashby Wilson16 Identity 248Arturo Escobar17 Imagining Nations 267Akhil Gupta18 Infrapolitics 282Steven Gregory19 ‘‘Mafias’’ 303Jane C. and Peter T. Schneider20 Militarization 318Catherine Lutz21 Neoliberalism 332John Gledhill22 Popular Justice 349Robert Gordon23 Postcolonialism 367K. Sivaramakrishnan24 Power Topographies 383James Ferguson25 Race Technologies 400Thomas Biolsi26 Sovereignty 418Caroline Humphrey27 Transnational Civil Society 437June Nash28 Transnationality 448Nina Glick SchillerIndex 468