Table of Contents

Synopsis of Contents Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Joan Vincent (Columbia University). 1. Affective States: Ann Laura Stoler (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). 2. After Socialism: Katherine Verdery (University of Michigan). 3. AIDS: Brooke Grundfest Schoepf (Harvard Medical School). 4. Citizenship: Aihwa Ong (University of California, Berkeley). 5. Cosmopolitanism: Ulf Hannerz (Stockholm University, Sweden). 6. Development: Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud (Hunter College and City University of New York Graduate Center, and Rutgers University). 7. Displacement: Elizabeth Colson (University of California, Berkeley). 8. Feminism: Malathi de Alwis (International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo). 9. Gender, Race, and Class: Micaela di Leonardo (Northwestern University). 10. Genetic Citizenship: Deborah Heath, Rayna Rapp, and Karen-Sue Taussig (Lewis and Clark College, New York University, and University of Minnesota). 11. The Global City: Saskia Sassen (University of Chicago). 12. Globalization: Jonathan Friedman (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and University of Lund, Sweden). 13. Governing States: David Nugent (Emory University). 14. Hegemony: Gavin Smith (Independent Scholar). 15. Human Rights: Richard Ashby Wilson (University of Connecticut). 16. Identity: Arturo Escobar (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). 17. Imagining Nations: Akhil Gupta (Stanford University). 18. Infrapolitics: Steven Gregory (Columbia University). 19. "Mafias": Jane C. and Peter T. Schneider (City University of New York Graduate Center and Fordham University) 20. Militarization: Catherine Lutz (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). 21. Neoliberalism: John Gledhill (University of Manchester). 22. Popular Justice: Robert Gordon (University of Vermont, Burlington). 23. Postcolonialism: K. Sivaramakrishnan (University of Washington, Seattle). 24. Power Topographies: James Ferguson (Stanford University). 25. Race Technologies: Thomas Biolsi (Portland State University). 26. Sovereignty: Caroline Humphrey (University of Cambridge). 27. Transnational Civil Society: June Nash (City University of New York Graduate Center). 28. Transnationality: Nina Glick-Schiller (University of New Hampshire, Durham). Index

About the Author

David Nugent is Professor of Anthropology at Colby College. Joan Vincent is Professor of Anthropology Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Reviews

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
"A magnificent collection. The most engaged and imaginative writing that anthropology has to offer, disclosing the inherently political nature of everyday life." Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley

"What is impressive about this collection is the way many authors take received ideas from political science, political philosophy, cultural studies, or world systems theory and, by subjecting them to ethnographic scrutiny, transform them in new and powerful ways. Anthropology makes a difference." Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago
"The Blackwell Companions to Anthropology, of which this volume is the second to appear, are set fair to blow cobwebs from dormant minds ... this volume is an exemplar of scholarship at its meticulous, dynamic, and demanding best ... we have here an erudite analysis of problems of direct relevance to the lives of every individual person on our planet, and an inspired exploration of "things to come." This is scholarly, sophisticated, unsparing, courageous political thinking, far removed from the shams, slogans, shibboleths, stupidities, and silliness of much of the political comment and conditioning purveyed by our mass media - even by our elected "representatives" ... This is an admirable work that will fertilise the rugged field of the anthropology of politics for decades to come. All academic libraries need it. It would also be a salutary Christmas present choice for our pet political representative, an earnest hope of a positive revolution in political theory and practice." Reference Reviews

A "Choice" Outstanding Academic Title of the Year "A magnificent collection. The most engaged and imaginative writing that anthropology has to offer, disclosing the inherently political nature of everyday life." "Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley" "What is impressive about this collection is the way many authors take received ideas from political science, political philosophy, cultural studies, or world systems theory and, by subjecting them to ethnographic scrutiny, transform them in new and powerful ways. Anthropology makes a difference." "Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago" "The "Blackwell Companions to Anthropology," of which this volume is the second to appear, are set fair to blow cobwebs from dormant minds ... this volume is an exemplar of scholarship at its meticulous, dynamic, and demanding best ... we have here an erudite analysis of problems of direct relevance to the lives of every individual person on our planet, and an inspired exploration of "things to come." This is scholarly, sophisticated, unsparing, courageous political thinking, far removed from the shams, slogans, shibboleths, stupidities, and silliness of much of the political comment and conditioning purveyed by our mass media - even by our elected "representatives" ... This is an admirable work that will fertilise the rugged field of the anthropology of politics for decades to come. All academic libraries need it. It would also be a salutary Christmas present choice for our pet political representative, an earnest hope of a positive revolution in political theory and practice." "Reference Reviews"

A "Choice" Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
"A magnificent collection. The most engaged and imaginative writing that anthropology has to offer, disclosing the inherently political nature of everyday life." "Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley "

"What is impressive about this collection is the way many authors take received ideas from political science, political philosophy, cultural studies, or world systems theory and, by subjecting them to ethnographic scrutiny, transform them in new and powerful ways. Anthropology makes a difference." "Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago"
"The "Blackwell Companions to Anthropology", of which this volume is the second to appear, are set fair to blow cobwebs from dormant minds ... this volume is an exemplar of scholarship at its meticulous, dynamic, and demanding best ... we have here an erudite analysis of problems of direct relevance to the lives of every individual person on our planet, and an inspired exploration of "things to come." This is scholarly, sophisticated, unsparing, courageous political thinking, far removed from the shams, slogans, shibboleths, stupidities, and silliness of much of the political comment and conditioning purveyed by our mass media - even by our elected "representatives" ... This is an admirable work that will fertilise the rugged field of the anthropology of politics for decades to come. All academic libraries need it. It would also be a salutary Christmas present choice for our pet political representative, an earnest hope of a positive revolution in political theory and practice." "Reference Reviews"