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imagined state: a standalone construct

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Political anthropology

the state as people imagine it through everyday encounters and talk such as discourses of corruption, which blur its boundary with society.

In political anthropology, imagined state refers to the state as people imagine it through everyday encounters and talk such as discourses of corruption, which blur its boundary with society. This meaning comes from Gupta (1995) in American Ethnologist.[1]

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References

Gupta, A. (1995). blurred boundaries: the discourse of corruption, the culture of politics, and the imagined state. American Ethnologist, 22(2), 375-402. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1995.22.2.02a00090

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