A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics

This Companion offers an unprecedented overview of anthropology’s unique contribution to the study of politics. Explores the key concepts and issues of our time - from AIDS, globalization, displacement, and militarization, to identity politics and beyond Each chapter reflects on concepts and issues that have shaped the anthropology of politics and concludes with thoughts on and challenges for the way ahead Anthropology's distinctive genre, ethnography, lies at the heart of this volume

Synopsis of Contents viii Preface xv Notes on Contributors xvi Introduction 1 Joan Vincent 1 Affective States 4 Ann Laura Stoler 2 After Socialism 21 Katherine Verdery 3 AIDS 37 Brooke Grundfest Schoepf 4 Citizenship 55 Aihwa Ong 5 Cosmopolitanism 69 Ulf Hannerz 6 Development 86 Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud 7 Displacement 107 Elizabeth Colson 8 Feminism 121 Malathi de Alwis 9 Gender, Race, and Class 135 Micaela di Leonardo 10 Genetic Citizenship 152 Deborah Heath, Rayna Rapp, and Karen-Sue Taussig 11 The Global City 168 Saskia Sassen 12 Globalization 179 Jonathan Friedman 13 Governing States 198 David Nugent 14 Hegemony 216 Gavin Smith 15 Human Rights 231 Richard Ashby Wilson 16 Identity 248 Arturo Escobar 17 Imagining Nations 267 Akhil Gupta 18 Infrapolitics 282 Steven Gregory 19 ‘‘Mafias’’ 303 Jane C. and Peter T. Schneider 20 Militarization 318 Catherine Lutz 21 Neoliberalism 332 John Gledhill 22 Popular Justice 349 Robert Gordon 23 Postcolonialism 367 K. Sivaramakrishnan 24 Power Topographies 383 James Ferguson 25 Race Technologies 400 Thomas Biolsi 26 Sovereignty 418 Caroline Humphrey 27 Transnational Civil Society 437 June Nash 28 Transnationality 448 Nina Glick Schiller Index 468