State, Resistance, Transformation: Anthropological Perspectives on the Dynamics of Power in Contemporary Global Realities

• Main Author: Eria Olowo Onyango (auth)
• Other Authors: Eldar Bråten (auth), Olaf H. Smedal (auth), Anh Nga Longva (auth), Hege Toje (auth), Ørnulf Gulbrandsen (auth), Donald M. Nonini (auth), Bruce Kapferer (auth), Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne (auth), Don Kalb (auth), Judith Kapferer (auth), Jonathan Friedman (auth), Leif Manger (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Sean Kingston Publishing 2018
• Subjects: nation-state; sovreignty; state; power; globalism
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The territorially sovereign nation-state - the globally dominant political formation of Western modernity - is in crisis. Though it is a highly heterogeneous assemblage, moulded by different histories involving myriad socio-cultural processes, its territorial integrity and sovereignty are always con...