The Encrypted State: Delusion and Displacement in the Peruvian Andes - Couverture rigide

Nugent, David

 
9781503609037: The Encrypted State: Delusion and Displacement in the Peruvian Andes
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1503609030 ISBN 13 : 9781503609037
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2019

Synopsis

What happens when a seemingly rational state becomes paranoid and delusional? The Encrypted State engages in a close analysis of political disorder to shed new light on the concept of political stability. The book focuses on a crisis of rule in mid-20th-century Peru, a period when officials believed they had lost the ability to govern and communicated in secret code to protect themselves from imaginary subversives. The Encrypted State engages the notion of sacropolitics--the politics of mass group sacrifice--to make sense of state delusion. Nugent interrogates the forces that variously enable or disable organized political subjection, and the role of state structures in this process. Investigating the role of everyday cultural practices and how affect and imagination structure political affairs, Nugent provides a greater understanding of the conditions of state formation, and failure.

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À propos de l?auteur

David Nugent is Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. His previous books include Locating Capital in Time and Space (SUP, 2002) and Modernity at the Edge of Empire (SUP, 1997).

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1503609030
ISBN 13 
9781503609037
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
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