State Formation

Christian Krohn-Hansen is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oslo. His research interests include the anthropology of politics and economic anthropology. He is the co-editor of State Formation (Pluto, 2005).Knut Gunnar Nustad is Associate Professor in the Department of International Environment and Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He is the co-editor of State Formation (Pluto, 2005).

• Foreword by Bruce KapfererPrefacePART I. THEORETICAL APPROACHES1. Introduction by Christian Krohn-Hansen and Knut G. Nustad 2. Sovereignty, the Spatial Politics of Security, and Gender: Looking North and South from the US-Mexico Border, by Ana M. AlonsoPART II. A VIEW FROM COMMUNITIES3. Chiefs and Bureaucrats in the Making of Empire: A Drama from the Transkei, South Africa, October 1880, by Clifton Crais4. State Formation through Development in Post-apartheid South Africa, by Knut G. Nustad 5. Negotiated Dictatorship: The Building of the Trujillo State in the Southwestern Dominican Republic, by Christian Krohn-Hansen6. The Materiality of State Effects: An Ethnography of a Road in the Peruvian Andes, by Penelope Harvey7. Contradictory Notions of the State: Returned Refugees in Guatemala, by Kristi Anne Stølen PART III: A VIEW FROM STATE BODIES8. Counting on State Subjects: State Formation and Citizenship in Twentieth-CenturyMexico, by Helga Baitenmannpg 9. ‘A Speech that the Entire Ministry may Stand for’: On Generating State Voice, by Iver B. Neumann 10. ‘Better Safe than Sorry’: Legislating Assisted Conception in Norway, by Marit Melhuus 11. The State of the State in Europe, or, ‘What is the European Union that Anthropologists Should be Mindful of it’?, by Cris Shore ContributorsIndex

'A novel approach to the state, seeing it both from above and below'