| Personal States: Making Connections Between People and Bureaucracy in Turkey Contributor(s): Alexander, Catherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199251797 ISBN-13: 9780199251797 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $294.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2002 Annotation: Charting how Turkish people - both within and outside the state bureaucracy - attempt to personalise the impersonality of the state, this elegant, nuanced ethnography will cause scholars of state institutions across a broad range of disciplines radically to rethink what the entity called 'the state' actually is, the relations that create it, and to acknowledge its materiality, thus taking understandings of the state to an entirely new level. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Political Science | Political Process - General |
| Dewey: 320.956 |
| LCCN: 2002070144 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.27 lbs) 284 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Charting how Turkish people - both within and outside the state bureaucracy - attempt to personalise the impersonality of the state, this elegant, nuanced ethnography will cause scholars of state institutions across a broad range of disciplines radically to rethink what the entity called 'the state' actually is, the relations that create it, and to acknowledge its materiality, thus taking understandings of the state to an entirely new level. |