Stategraphy: A Social Anthropological Approach to the State

Tatjana Thelen

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-94000-3_3

Stategraphy: A Social Anthropological Approach to the State

Tatjana Thelen

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

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Abstract

In this chapter, I outline a social anthropological approach to the state, called stategraphy. The term denotes an ethnographically grounded perspective that focuses on relational modalities, forms of embeddedness of actors, and boundary work as constitutive factors of the state. These avenues of analyses enable a nuanced understanding and comparative investigation of change and continuity of mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in various contexts. The approach is based on a relational understanding that seeks to bridge the analytical gap between state images and state practices that developed within interdisciplinary debates on the state.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	State and Statehood in the Global South
Subtitle of host publication	Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies
Editors	Wolfram Schaffar, Elmar Flatschart, Miriam Fahimi
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	49-65
Number of pages	17
Edition	1.
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-94000-3
ISBN (Print)	9783030939991
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94000-3_3
Publication status	Published - 2022

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

504017 Cultural anthropology
504007 Empirical social research
504008 Ethnography
504009 Ethnology

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