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The concealment of the state /
"Increasingly, politicians and policymakers insist that the market is an immovable force that constraints their ability to act. At the same time, states strive to retain their sovereignty while claiming to be part of a global system. This dichotomy reveals a dominant contemporary ideology: the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury,
2013.
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| Colección: | Contemporary anarchist studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The concealment of the state; The politics of concealment; Ideology and the state; Does the state still exist?; A postmodern state?; Notes; 2 Deep and shallow state; The shallow state; The deep state; Hiding behind the market; Concealment of our dependency; Notes; 3 Theories of the state; Formation and evolution of the state; The utility and contingency of the state; Deeper challenges; State, markets, and political legitimacy; Notes; 4 Engines of oppression; Historical dynamics; Coercion and the market; Surveillance and the market.
- The nonlethal future of coercionConcealing invincibility; Notes; 5 A postindustrial peasantry?; The usefulness of an analogy; Cultural similarities; Peasants and politics; A postindustrial peasantry?; Notes; 6 Conclusion; Revealing the state; Intermediaries, representation, and anarchism; Challenging the state to act; The delusion of violent resistance and so-called direct action; Some final questions; Notes; Bibliography; Index.