Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s scientific contributions

... Whatever one's view, if anthropology's interest in the state began from a desire to distance itself from its hegemonic theorizations in political theory, the ever-greater commoditization and corporatization of every facet of social life, the cosmopolitanization of elites, and the globalization and financialization of capital have all changed the nature of the "state-finance nexus" (Harvey 2010, Kalb 2023) and, with it, the nature of state talk. In addition to the conventional arenas of state power, such as citizenship (Greenhouse et al. 2002;Ong 1999;Petryna 2002;Povinelli 1998Povinelli , 2002 and the law (Nader 2002, Starr & Collier 1989, anthropologists now commonly see care (Muehlebach 2012, Stevenson 2014, Ticktin 2006, art (Brandel 2023), expertise (Boyer 2008, Mitchell 2002, kinship (Thelen & Alber 2018), witchcraft (Kapferer 2002, Siegel 2005, and humanitarianism (Cabot 2019, Fassin 2012) fundamentally as sites for the exercise of state power or resistance to it. ...

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Locating the State: Between Region and History