Full Description
Stategraphy-the ethnographic exploration of relational modes, boundaries, and forms of embeddedness of state actors-offers crucial analytical avenues for researching state transformations. 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
Introduction to Stategraphy: Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State;Tatjana Thelen, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann;Chapter 1. Contingent Statehood: Clientelism and Civic Engagement as Relational Modalities in Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina;Larissa Vetters;Chapter 2. The State, Legal Rigor, and the Poor: The Daily Practice of Welfare Control;Vincent Dubois;Chapter 3. Relationships, Practices, and Images of the Local State in Rural Russia;Rebecca Kay;Chapter 4. Acts of Assistance: Navigating the Interstices of the British State with the Help of Non-profit Legal Advisers;Alice Forbess and Deborah James;Chapter 5. Images of Care, Boundaries of the State: Volunteering and Civil Society in Czech Health Care;Rosie Read;Chapter 6. State Kinning and Kinning the State in Serbian Elder Care Programs;Tatjana Thelen, Andre Thiemann, and Duska Roth;Chapter 7. Workings of the State: Administrative Lists, European Union Food Aid, and the Local Practices of Distribution in Rural Romania;Stefan Dorondel and Mihai Popa;Chapter 8. Creating the State Locally through Welfare Provision: Two Mayors, Two Welfare Regimes in Rural Hungary;Gyongyi Schwarcz and Alexandra Szoke;Bibliography;Index
