Political Anthropology of Internationalized Politics

Explores methods and concepts of political anthropology and explains how they can be used for the analysis of international relations and internationalized politics.

List of contents

1. Introduction: The Political Anthropology of Internationalized Politics, Sarah Biecker, Klaus Schlichte
Part I: New Vantage Points
2. Conducting Field Research When There is No 'Field': Some Notes on the Praxiographic Challenge, Christian Bueger
3. The Possibilities and Limits of Ethnography: From Syria and Jordan, Sophia Hoffmann
4. Zooming in Dissolves the Taken-For-Granted: Towards a Political Anthropology of International Organisations, Julian Eckl
Part II: Local Arenas of Internationalized Politics
5. Emic security: An anthropological approach to security, Tessa Diphoorn
6. Dynamic Security and the Scientific Exotic - Vernacularisation and Practical Norms in Ugandan Prisons, Tomas Martin
7. The Value of 'Staying Put' For the Study of International Peacebuilding:Insights from Somaliland, Jessica L. Anderson
Part III: Catching How the World is Ruled
8. Depending on Money: Kenya's International Relations, Kai Koddenbrock
9. Bureaucratic Technologies of Government and the Study of Internationalised Politics, Sarah Biecker & Klaus Schlichte,
Afterword, Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan

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Edited by Sarah Biecker and Klaus Schlichte

Summary

Explores methods and concepts of political anthropology and explains how they can be used for the analysis of international relations and internationalized politics.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Biecker, Sarah Schlichte Biecker, Klaus Biecker Schlichte
• Assisted by: Sarah Biecker (Editor), Klaus Schlichte (Editor), Schlichte Klaus (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781538149508
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4950-8
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Geopolitics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, International Relations, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology