In For a Just Republic, Partha Chatterjee revisits his long-standing distinction between the nation-state and the ...

An antidote is a biological or chemical substance that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of a poisonous agent. This concept can also be used metaphorically in political and social contexts. The ...

Globalisation, migration, climate change and war – nation states are currently under huge pressure on many fronts. Understanding the forces that initially drove the emergence of states across the ...

Introduction : everyday nation making: the case of Papua New Guinea -- State-sponsored nation making. Take care of public telephones : moral education and nation-state formation. Your money, our money ...

Rethinking the state: genesis and structure of the bureaucratic field / Pierre Bourdieu -- Society, economy, and the state effect / Timothy Mitchell -- Culture in rational-choice theories of ...