State and Statehood in the Global South

Focuses on critical-materialistic approaches to the state and state theory
Introduces readers to different schools of state theory, including critical theory and materialism
Presents various empirical studies, highlighting concrete methodological and practical experiences

Focuses on critical-materialistic approaches to the state and state theory Introduces readers to different schools of state theory, including critical theory and materialism Presents various empirical studies, highlighting concrete methodological and practical experiences

Autorentext

Miriam Fahimi is a social scientist and PhD candidate at the Digital Age Research Center at University of Klagenfurt. As a Marie Curie Fellow in the project "NoBIAS - Artificial Intelligence without Bias", Fahimi researches the sociomaterial practices of AI technology in regard to bias, discrimination and power. Her research interests include theory of ethics, philosophy of science, science and technology studies, and feminist theory.

Elmar Flatschart is lecturer and occasional researcher at and around the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna. His research interests include a wide area of theoretical debates: Critical Theory (Frankfurt School, critical-dialectical theories of society), philosophy of science (Critical Realism), materialist state theory, critique of political economy, materialist-feminist approaches, political ecology (with a focus on energy as social relation) and social movements (with a focus on direct-democratic participation processes).

Wolfram Schaffar holds the chair of Development Politics at the University of Passau. Prior to this engagement, he taught at the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna, the Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn, the Chulalongkorn University, Thailand and he served as regular guest lecturer at Yangon University, Myanmar, Jigme Shingye Wangchuk School of Law, Thimphu, Bhutan. In his research, Schaffar focuses on democratization and de-democratization processes, state theory of the Global South and social movements, with a regional focus on Southeast Asia.

Inhalt
Part 1: Introduction.- Critical State Theory In The Global South.- Part 2: Theoretical And Methodological Preliminaries.- Materialist Theory And The State In Peripheral/Post-Colonial Societies.- Stategraphy. A Social Anthropological Approach To The State.- Ethics Of Doing Critical Research On The State In The Global South.- Part 3: Materialist State Theoretical Analysis.- State Theoy Of The Semi-Periphery As State Theory Of Deficit. The Example Of Modern Turkey.- Materialist State Theory. An Example Of Analyzing The State At The Periphery.- Part 4: Analyzing The State With Critical Realist Perspectives.- Abe Shinz's Neoliberal Nationalism. A Discourse Of Transcendence.- Resource Frontiers And Indigenous Mobilization In Myanmar. A Critical Realist Approach To Empirical Research In The 'Global South' Rainer.- Part 5: Ethnographical And Postcolonial Approaches To State And Statehood.- Moral Appreciation. Caring For Post-Socialist Cows In Contemporary Serbia.- Latin America. The Refounding Of The State.- Ethnography Of The State In Plurinational Bolivia. Indigenous Knowledge, Clientelism And Decolonizing Bureaucracy.<p