Davita Silfen Glasberg, Abbey S. Willis, Deric Shannon

The State of State Theory (eBook, PDF)

State Projects, Repression, and Multi-Sites of Power

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In The State of State Theory: State Projects, Repression, and Multi-Sites of Power, Glasberg, Willis, and Shannon argue that state theories should be amended to account both for theoretical developments broadly in the contemporary period as well as the multiple sites of power along which the state governs. Using state projects and policies around political economy, sexuality and family, food, welfare policy, racial formation, and social movements as narrative accounts in how the state operates, the authors argue for a complex and intersectional approach to state theory. In doing so, they expand outside of the canon to engage with perspectives within critical race theory, queer theory, and beyond to build theoretical tools for a contemporary and critical state theory capable of providing the foundations for understanding how the state governs, what is at stake in its governance, and, importantly, how people resist and engage with state power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978775091
• Artikelnr.: 74397619

Autorenporträt

Davita Silfen Glasberg is interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Power and the State
Chapter 2 Breaking the Theoretical Stalemate: State Projects and a
Multi-Site Model of Power and the State
Chapter 3 State Projects and Economic Intervention: Balancing Political
Forces
Chapter 4 State Projects and Heteronormativity: Framing and Selectivity
Filters
Chapter 5 State Projects and Social Movements: Racial Formation and the
State
Chapter 6 State Projects and The Human Right to Shelter: Balancing
Political Forces and Intersecting Structures of Oppression
Chapter 7 State Projects and The Human Right to Food: Direct Action and
Balancing Political Forces
Chapter 8 Intersections of State Projects, Multi-Sites of Power and The
Welfare State
Chapter 9 Where Do We Go From Here? Implications and Steps Forward
Index
About the Author