Anthropology of the State: Subject, Citizen, Sovereignty

Anthropological approaches to the state, sovereignty, and citizenship. State power as a product of performances or paperwork, of violence, state services, or linguistic norms. State-shaped conceptions of rights and identity that influence both everyday lives and moments of crisis. Key theoretical approaches to the state alongside ethnographies. Key modalities of the state, including the colonial state, the authoritarian state, and the democratic state. Ethnographic approaches to popular confrontation of state power.