Governing cultures : anthropological perspectives on political labor, power, and government /
Governments are formal political institutions, places of work for thousands of women and men, and powerful social, cultural, and economic sites that shape the lives of all people. This collection demonstrates how anthropologists enrich our understandings of government by exploring the labor of those...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Government Matters: Intellectual Labor and the Work of Governing / Kendra Coulter and William R. Schumann
- Navigating the Illegible State: Governmentality and Political Process / Tara A. Schwegler
- A Project of Governing and its Contradictions: Maternal-Infant Care in Highland Ecuador / Kim Clark
- Governing Beef: Program Implementation, Unintended Consequences and BSE Control in Alberta / Alan Smart and Josephine Smart
- Selling Clear Red Water: The Identity Politics of Governing in the National Assembly for Wales / William R. Schumann
- Legislative Authenticity and the Politics of Recognition: Being a Maori Member of the New Zealand Parliament / Ilana Gershon
- Gendering Government: Political Labor and the Production of Policy and Political Culture / Kendra Coulter
- The Work of Being Governed: From the Welfare State to the "Big Society" in Britain / Susan Brin Hyatt
- The Will To End Hunger in the Age of Security: Food Security, National Security and Community-Based Food Security in the United States / David V. Fazzino II
- The Work of Governing / John Clarke.