This seminar will provide an introduction to the growing body of anthropological work on the state, together with some of the classical and contemporary theorists who have informed this scholarship. Themes covered will include: the formation of the modern nation-state; power, ideology and hegemony; state violence and mechanisms of control; bureaucratic practices such as state planning and policy making; and the 'everyday state'. Through intensive discussion of selected readings, students will engage with a distinctively anthropological perspective and methodological approach to understanding of the modern state, marked by a focus on everyday practices and meanings, structure and agency, discourse and ideology, and the micropolitics of power.
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