Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
PART ONE: Experiencing the Bureaucratic Machine
1: ID Cards and Social Class
2: Paper Games
3: Somali Kinship and Bureaucratic Governance at a Refugee Camp in Kenya
4: Inside the Anti-Politics Machine
PART TWO: (Un)Making Lives
5: Lateral Futurity
6: Gazomania!
PART THREE: Disciplinarity, Subjectivity, and Violence
7: Politics of Patience
8:The State as Golem
9: Encountering the State in Times of Terror
PART FOUR: The Social Life of Democracy
10: Fishing Nets, Kabila’s Eyes, and Voter’s Cards
11: Encountering Cameroon’s Garrison State
12: Disputing Democracy and Challenging the State in Mozambique
PART FIVE:Everyday Politics of Rights and Responsibility
13: The Intimate State
14: The State and “Its Responsibilities”
15: Fragile Relationships
Afterword
Contributors
Index