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Introduction: Performing the State
Introduction: Performing the StateJournal Article | Jul 2016
Seeking to expand the domain of the political beyond normative understandings of the state, the articles in this special edition examine the performative ...
Performance, governance, religion, militia, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Southeast Asia
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United StatesBook | Jan 2018
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American women wearing the ...
The gendered state: A review of some recent studies on women and the state
DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1991
This working paper is an analytical review of four recent studies on "women and the state" or the gendered state. Three of these books include studies ...
Women, Gender relations, State, Africa, Asia, Europe
The Aid Agencies and the Fragile States Agenda
The Aid Agencies and the Fragile States AgendaCMI Working Paper | Jan 2006
In recent years, a consensus appears to have emerged that a variety of problems can be understood in terms of state failure. This paper reviews one aspect ...
Fragile states, Peace building, Aid policy
Exogenous state-building: The contradictions of the international project in Afghanistan
Exogenous state-building: The contradictions of the international project in AfghanistanBook Chapter | Jan 2011
In the contemporary writing on state-building in post-conflict situations, remarkably little attention is paid to what it takes to build a state. There ...
Afghanistan
Environment, society and the state in southwestern Eritrea
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000
This paper examines the relationships between environment, society and the state in the Gash-Setit region, western Eritrea. Through an examination of ...
Africa: Eritrea
Oil States in the New Middle East. Uprisings and stability
Oil States in the New Middle East. Uprisings and stabilityEdited Book | Sep 2016
Oil has been central to regime survival for oil states across the Arabian Peninsula and has been at the heart of their attempts to defuse the wave of ...
Kuwait
The relationship between the state, family and household. Consequences for women's participation in the education system in Kerala, India
DERAP Working Paper | Jan 1990
The theme of this working paper is gender and education in India, and more specifically the question why there is significantly higher participation of ...
Gender relations, Education, Kerala, India, Asia: India
Development planning and the importance of Democratic Institutions in Botswana
CMI Report | Jan 1993
This study takes an extended look at Botswana, a country which is found to depart from the common pattern of African states and therefore may be considered ...
Democracy, Development planning, Economic policy, Botswana
The gendered state: A review of some recent studies on women and the state
CMI Report | Jan 1991
The gendered state: A review of some recent studies on women and the state Kate Halvorsen CMI Repor
A State of Corruption? An Anthropology of the South Asian State
Doctoral Thesis | Aug 2008
A State of Corruption? An Anthropology of the South Asian State Tone K. Sissener Dissertation Subm
Corruption, Anthropology, Bangladesh
Ethiopia: Crisis of state, good governance and the reform of the security sector
Book Chapter | Jan 2002
Ethiopia: Crisis of state, good governance and the reform of the security sector Siegfried Pausewan
Africa: Ethiopia
Ethiopia: Crisis of state, good governance and the reform of the security sector
Book Chapter | Jan 2002
Ethiopia: Crisis of state, good governance and the reform of the security sector Siegfried Pausewan
Africa: Ethiopia
What is Left of State Responsibility? Turning State Obligations into State Responsibilities in the Field of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Book Chapter | Jan 2005
What is Left of State Responsibility? Turning State Obligations into State Responsibilities in the
Human rights
PNA Political Institutions and the Future of State Formation
PNA Political Institutions and the Future of State FormationBook Chapter | Jan 2004
PNA Political Institutions and the Future of State Formation Inge Amundsen and Basem Ezbidi State f
Middle East: Palestine
Taming the war machine: Police, pacification and power i Rio de Janeiro
Taming the war machine: Police, pacification and power i Rio de JaneiroMaster's Thesis | Jan 2016
In this thesis I trace the changes in the exercise of Brazilian state power in Rio’s poor communities, or favelas, through an ethnographic exploration ...
Brazil
Colonial legacy, state building and the salience of ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Colonial legacy, state building and the salience of ethnicity in Sub-Saharan AfricaJournal Article | Apr 2019
African colonial history suggests that British colonial rule may have undermined state centralisation due to legacies of ethnic segregation and stronger ...
Colonial legacy, development, ethnicity, state capacity, Sub-Saharan Africa
Commemoration and the State: Memory and Legitimacy in Vietnam
Journal Article | Apr 2010
The commemorations of historical figures, both public and private, have become a powerful tool for politicians and historians in Vietnam to reconfigure ...
Sovereignities in the making. Reflections on state and society in Sudan
Book Chapter | Jan 2018
Sovereignities in the making. Reflections on state and society in Sudan Leif Manger State, Resistanc
The many faces of political Islam in Sudan: Muslim women's activism for and against the state
Doctoral Thesis | Nov 2011
This thesis investigates the politics of competing Islamic gender ideologies in Sudan. Based on fieldwork conducted in greater Khartoum from 2006 through ...
Sudan