State matters : theorizing state fragmentation and consolidation from Iraq /
Why does the state matter to its people? How do people know and experience the state? And how did the state come to be both desired and dreaded by its subjects? This study offers a historically grounded social theoretical account of state consolidation in Iraq, from the foundation of the country as...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2026.
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| Series: | Global Middle East (Cambridge, England) ;
39. |
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Table of Contents:
- The people, the state, and questions of legitimation
- Domination and violence at a war-counterinsurgency nexus
- Consolidating in the margins
- Undoing of a state : state-building and the electrical grid
- Theoretical reflections on the illusive business of capturing the state
- Epilogue: Who decides?