Reproducing the State. By Jacqueline Stevens. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. 307p. $49.50 cloth, $18.95 paper

Autor:	Somer Brodribb
Rok vydání:	2002
Předmět:	Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Ethnic group Gender studies Democracy Race (biology) Politics State (polity) Political Science and International Relations Kinship Natural (music) Sociology Centrality Law and economics media_common
Zdroj:	American Political Science Review. 96:197-198
ISSN:	1537-5943 0003-0554
DOI:	10.1017/s0003055402464313
Popis:	Jacqueline Stevens grapples with the meanings of political society and affiliation and how we think about what constitutes family, nation, ethnicity, and race. How do we come to know ourselves and others through these political artifices and naturalized identities? Her project is to trouble our complacencies and make visible the arbitrary practices that produce the inclusions and exclusions of the “state-nation” (p. 43). She examines democratic, communitarian, and liberal theories of political society and finds little attention there to the problem of membership and the ways groups are constituted. Birth, the family, ethnicity, and national origin are undertheorized or considered to derive from natural, ancestral ties. Stevens addresses these inadequacies, and superbly reveals the centrality of birth and kinship practices to political societies.
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