Popular TV: Schiller’s Channeling the State
Channeling the State: Community Media and Popular Politics in Venezuela, by Naomi Schiller (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018). reviewed by…
Posts Tagged 'state'
Review Essay: Post-socialism 2.0: New Ethnographies of Contemporary Balkans
Post-socialism 2.0: New Ethnographies of Contemporary Balkans 2015 has proven to be an exciting time for political anthropology of former…
Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia
At the lived edges of political maps, who has the right to impersonate the state, uphold its law and…
Democracy against Development: Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India
Jeffrey Witsoe’s Democracy against Development brings ethnographic and theoretical attention to the dynamics of postcolonial democracy in India. The book…