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vertical encompassment: a standalone construct

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Political anthropology

the taken-for-granted image of the state as standing above society and containing localities, which Ferguson and Gupta treat as produced by practice.

In political anthropology, vertical encompassment refers to the taken-for-granted image of the state as standing above society and containing localities, which Ferguson and Gupta treat as produced by practice. This meaning comes from Ferguson (2002) in American Ethnologist.[1]

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doxa2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs image4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs practice3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Ferguson, J., & Gupta, A. (2002). Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality. American Ethnologist, 29(4), 981-1002. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.2002.29.4.981

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