This Companion offers an unprecedented overview of anthropology s unique contribution to the study of politics. Explores the key concepts and issues of our time - from AIDS, globalization, displacement, and militarization, to identity politics and beyond Each chapter reflects on concepts and issues that have shaped the anthropology of politics and concludes with thoughts on and challenges for the way ahead Anthropology's distinctive genre, ethnography, lies at the heart of this volume

This Companion offers an unprecedented overview of anthropology's unique contribution to the study of politics.* Explores the key concepts and issues of our time - from AIDS, globalization, displacement, and militarization, to identity politics and beyond* Each chapter reflects on concepts and issues that have shaped the anthropology of politics and concludes with thoughts on and challenges for the way ahead* Anthropology's distinctive genre, ethnography, lies at the heart of this volume

Synopsis of Contents viiiPreface xvNotes on Contributors xviIntroduction 1Joan Vincent1 Affective States 4Ann Laura Stoler2 After Socialism 21Katherine Verdery3 AIDS 37Brooke Grundfest Schoepf4 Citizenship 55Aihwa Ong5 Cosmopolitanism 69Ulf Hannerz6 Development 86Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud7 Displacement 107Elizabeth Colson8 Feminism 121Malathi de Alwis9 Gender, Race, and Class 135Micaela di Leonardo10 Genetic Citizenship 152Deborah Heath, Rayna Rapp, and Karen-Sue Taussig11 The Global City 168Saskia Sassen12 Globalization 179Jonathan Friedman13 Governing States 198David Nugent14 Hegemony 216Gavin Smith15 Human Rights 231Richard Ashby Wilson16 Identity 248Arturo Escobar17 Imagining Nations 267Akhil Gupta18 Infrapolitics 282Steven Gregory19 ''Mafias'' 303Jane C. and Peter T. Schneider20 Militarization 318Catherine Lutz21 Neoliberalism 332John Gledhill22 Popular Justice 349Robert Gordon23 Postcolonialism 367K. Sivaramakrishnan24 Power Topographies 383James Ferguson25 Race Technologies 400Thomas Biolsi26 Sovereignty 418Caroline Humphrey27 Transnational Civil Society 437June Nash28 Transnationality 448Nina Glick SchillerIndex 468