This review surveys anthropological and other social research on bureaucratic documents.
The fundamental insight of this literature is that documents are not simply instruments of …

▪ Abstract Despite transformations in the character of the state in an age of globalization,
news of its demise is certainly exaggerated. Even as operations of state (or state-like) power …

En diciembre de 2015 sucedió lo impensado: Mauricio Macri ganó la elección presidencial
derrotando al poderoso aparato del PJ. Los seguidores y los opositores coincidieron en …

Los pobres urbanos, en sus frecuentes encuentros con políticos, burócratas y funcionarios,
aprenden a ser pacientes del estado. En forma recurrente se ven obligados a seguir los …

In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to
demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain …

summary Roads matter to people. This claim is central to the work of Penny Harvey and
Hannah Knox, who in this book use the example of highway building in South America to …

Winner of the 2019 Global and Transnational Sociology Best Book Award, American
Sociological Association Winner of the 2019 Political Economy of World System (PEWS) …

The Licit Life of Capitalism is both an account of a specific capitalist project—US oil
companies working off the shores of Equatorial Guinea—and a sweeping theorization of …

In Plantation Life Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance
of Indonesia's contemporary oil palm plantations in Indonesia, which supply 50 percent of …

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