Personal States: Making Connections between People and Bureaucracy in Turkey (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

ISBN: 0199251797

Author: Alexander, Catherine

Condition: New

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.