| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 297 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Chicago studies in practices of meaning |
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Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
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| Contents |
Toward an anthropology of neoliberal sovereignty -- Customs as effective sovereign : state logics across time and place -- Anthropologies of the state : marrying ethnography and political economy -- Histories and tactics of territorial sovereignty : thinking through the border -- The sovereignty of good governance : bureaucratic contests and the recentering of power -- The properties of popular sovereignty : customs and corruption, cars, and democratic discourse -- Technologies of sovereignty : the politics and phenomenology of privatized rule on the maritime frontier -- Affective sovereignty : airport anthropology and the shifting contours of citizenship -- Working the border : neoliberal sovereignty in comparative perspective |
| Summary |
In Neoliberal Frontiers, Brenda Chalfin presents an ethnographic examination of the day-to-day practices of the officials of Ghana's Customs Service, exploring the impact of neoliberal restructuring and integration into the global economy on Ghanaian sovereignty |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-286) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ghana. Customs, Excise, and Preventive Service.
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| SUBJECT |
Ghana. Customs, Excise, and Preventive Service fast |
| Subject |
Neoliberalism -- Ghana
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Neoliberalism -- Africa, West
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Customs administration -- Ghana
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Customs administration -- Africa, West
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Sovereignty.
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sovereignty.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports.
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Customs administration
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Neoliberalism
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Sovereignty
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Nyliberalism.
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West Africa
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Ghana
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010005834 |
| ISBN |
9780226100623 |
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0226100626 |
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0226100596 |
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9780226100593 |
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1282678981 |
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9781282678989 |
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9786612678981 |
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6612678984 |
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