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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 Opening the Space of Interpretation -- CHAPTER 2 Catholic West Belfast: A Sense of Place -- CHAPTER 3 Gender Trouble and the Transformation of Consciousness -- CHAPTER 4 The Ritual Politics of Historical Legitimacy -- CHAPTER 5 The Gendered Politics of Suffering: Women of the RAC -- CHAPTER 6 The Power of Sexual Difference: Armagh Women -- CHAPTER 7 En-Gendering a Nation -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index

▪ Abstract  Despite transformations in the character of the state in an age of globalization, news of its demise is certainly exaggerated. Even as operations of state (or state-like) power exceed the boundaries of the nation-state to be deployed by actors such as transnational nongovernmental organizations, private corporations, guerrilla groups, or narcotraffickers, the state form shows remarkable tenacity and adaptability. Invested with a kind of meta-capital, the state remains a crucial presence, a screen for political desires and identifications as well as fears. This review addresses recent academic reflection on the field of knowledge we call the state. It asks how the state becomes a social subject in everyday life, examining the subjective experience of state power and tracing its effects on territories, populations, and bodies. Finally, it considers the ways violence, sexuality, and desire work in the intimate spaces of state power.Begoña Aretxaga's essay was left among her papers in an almost complete form at the time of her untimely death. A collective, consisting of James Brow, Charles Hale, Yael Navaro-Yahsin, Geeta Patel, Brandt Peterson, and Pauline Strong, worked to fill in citations, answer questions Begoña posed to herself, which were unresolved, and to lightly edit the final form of this essay. This piece has not been changed substantially. In an effort to keep to the form and spirit of Begoña's interrogations the essay stands as it was, without a literal conclusion. Perhaps a conclusion can be supplied by readers engaged in an ongoing analysis of contemporary political situations, to which Begoña's work speaks profoundly, as a legacy that this essay and her extended oeuvre bequeathed to us.

The Politics of Difference: Ethnic Premises in. World of Power. Edwin N. Wilmsen and Patrick McAllister. eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 210 pp.

This article analyses sexual and gender metaphors used in the political rhetoric aboutIreland produced by both British colonialism and Irish nationalism. Departing from BenedictAnderson's formulation of the nation as imagined community, the author examines theshifting of gender categories used in defining Irish identity. The author argues that the linkof gender and national identity coupled with the violent events surrounding the partition ofIreland had important effects on the lives of Irish women best seen in the policies implementedon matters of sexuality and family law that followed the declaration of independence. ; Este articulo analiza las metáforas sexuales y de género utilizadas en la retórica políticasobre Irlanda, producida por el colonialismo británico y el nacionalismo irlandés. Partiendode la concepción teórica de nación como comunidad imaginada, propugnada por BenedictAnderson, la autora examina los cambios de género que han moldeado la definición de laidentidad irlandesa. La autora sostiene que la conexión entre género e identidad nacional,unida a los violentos sucesos que acompañaron la partición de Irlanda, ha tenido consecuenciasimportantes para las mujeres irlandesas, que pueden identificarse en la legislación sobrematerias de sexualidad y derecho familiar que se implementó tras la consecución de laindependencia.

"Collection of essays by Basque anthropologist Begoña Aretxaga on political violence, gender and nationalism, and the political culture of Basque youth"--Provided by publisher

The essays in this volume reflect on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore everyday modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programs in China and the Republic of Congo, psychiatrists and the mentally ill in Morocco and Ireland, and persons who have suffered trauma or been displaced by violence in the Middle East and in South and Southeast Asia. Painting on book jacket by Entang Wiharso