Political Anthropology
QUESTION: The Governmentalization of the State Preamble: Are we back to conceptualizing politics in terms of coercion (force. violence)? That might be the implication of works we encountered by Tilly, Lutz. and Astrada. especially in connection with the latter’s conceptualization of the -absolute security agenda’. Whether or not you agree, this exam will ask you to take a specific stance (for some. it may be like playing the role of devil’s advocate) and that stance will be one that challenges the emphasis on war. repression. and securitization that we find in the works mentioned above.
Hence. the exam question: What is the argument that can be made for analyzing -the state’ in terms of its non-violent capacities for governance?