State and Statehood in the Global South

Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-93999-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 237 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 547 g

This book focuses on critical approaches to the state and state theory in the Global South. In light of the reemergence of the post-colonial and peripheral state as a crucial institution and actor in the 21st century’s capitalist world-system, the book examines the nature, functions and development dynamics of the state in the periphery, as well as its constituting interests and struggles. Drawing on the works of Poulantzas and Gramsci, dependency and world-systems theory, as well as the regulation school and the German Ableitungsdebatte, stategraphy and critical realism, it analyzes the development of different theoretical perspectives on the state, elaborates on their theoretical, ontological and epistemological presuppositions, and illustrates their methodological, practical and ethical implications.

The book is divided into three parts, the first of which provides an overview of recent global capitalist developments and challenges for state theory andlays the theoretical, ontological and hermeneutic foundation for studies of the state and statehood in the Global South. In turn, the second part introduces readers to different schools of state theory, including critical theory and materialism, as well as approaches derived from postcolonial, anthropological, and feminist thought. Lastly, the third part presents various empirical studies, highlighting concrete methodological and practical experiences of conducting critical state theory.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fahimi, Miriam

Schaffar, Wolfram

Flatschart, Elmar

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Shinzo’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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.