Neoliberal frontiers : an ethnography of sovereignty in West Africa /

In Neoliberal Frontiers, Brenda Chalfin presents an ethnographic examination of the day-to-day practices of the officials of Ghana's Customs Service, exploring the impact of neoliberal restructuring and integration into the global economy on Ghanaian sovereignty.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chalfin, Brenda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2010.
Colección:Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
Temas:
Ghana. > Customs, Excise, and Preventive Service.
Ghana. > Customs, Excise, and Preventive Service
Neoliberalism > Ghana.
Neoliberalism > Africa, West.
Customs administration > Ghana.
Customs administration > Africa, West.
Sovereignty.
Néo-libéralisme > Ghāna.
Néo-libéralisme > Afrique occidentale.
Douanes > Ghāna.
Douanes > Afrique occidentale.
Souveraineté.
sovereignty.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Trade & Tariffs.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports.
Customs administration
Neoliberalism
Sovereignty
Nyliberalism.
West Africa
Ghana
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Toward an anthropology of neoliberal sovereignty
  • Customs as effective sovereign : state logics across time and place
  • Anthropologies of the state : marrying ethnography and political economy
  • Histories and tactics of territorial sovereignty : thinking through the border
  • The sovereignty of good governance : bureaucratic contests and the recentering of power
  • The properties of popular sovereignty : customs and corruption, cars, and democratic discourse
  • Technologies of sovereignty : the politics and phenomenology of privatized rule on the maritime frontier
  • Affective sovereignty : airport anthropology and the shifting contours of citizenship
  • Working the border : neoliberal sovereignty in comparative perspective.

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