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This volume offers insights from political anthropology on how to analyze and how to think about contemporary areas of internationalized political phenomena in a fresh manner. By drawing on a variety of cases like policing, budgeting, the role of monetary politics in everyday life, development agencies, and international organisations it shows the promise of an "extended experience" for the study of international politics, yet without glossing over the limits of such approaches.

• Cover
• The Political Anthropology of Internationalized Politics
• The Political Anthropology of Internationalized Politics
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1
  • For an Extended Experience
    • Exchanging Glances: States, Bureaucracies, and Development
    • What IR Can Gain from Political Anthropology
    • The Plea for an Extended Experience
    • Globalization as Hermeneutical Challenge
    • Overview of Chapters
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
• New Vantage Points
  • Chapter 2
  • Conducting “Field Research” When There Is No “Field”
    • The Concept of Field and Ethnography
    • Beyond Agrarian Metaphors: Toward Alternative Concepts
    • Multisitedness
    • Time
    • Access, Entry, and Exit
    • Uncertainty and Modesty
    • The Ethnomethodological Gaze: Experimenting and Action Research
    • Proximity and Validity
    • Having a Beer in Mombasa
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
  • Chapter 3
  • The Possibilities and Limits of Ethnography
    • Unpicking the “Ethnography-in-IR-Debate”
    • Comparing Two Research Experiences
    • Concluding Analysis
    • Notes
    • References
  • Chapter 4
  • Zooming in Dissolves the Taken-for-Granted and Allows to Reconstruct Its Production
    • Renewing the Conversation
    • Primary Sources and Personal Immersion: Two Avenues toward Rich Empirical Detail
    • The Project and Puzzling Insights from the Field
    • The Assembly as Multiple Sites
    • The Assembly as One of Several Policy-Making Sites within WHO
    • The Absence of WHO at WHO Meetings
    • How the Impression of Stasis Had Originally Been Produced or How Order Is Lived across Sites
    • Implications and Conclusions
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
• Local Arenas of Internationalized Politics
  • Chapter 5
  • Emic Security
    • Security in Security Studies
    • Security in Anthropology
    • Ethnographic Approach to Security
    • Concluding Remarks
    • Notes
    • References
  • Chapter 6
  • Dynamic Security and the Scientific Exotic
    • The Scientific Exotic
    • The Anthropology of Development and Practical Norms
    • The Anthropology of Human Rights and Vernacularization
    • The Katikiros of Ugandan Prisons—Practical Norms of Intermediation
    • From Power to Authority—the Vernacularization of Dynamic Security
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
  • Chapter 7
  • The Value of “Staying Put” for the Study of International Peacebuilding
    • Ethnography and IR
    • The Knowledge Market
    • Diffuse Kinds of Power
    • Insights from “Staying Put” in Somaliland
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
• Catching How the World Is Ruled
  • Chapter 8
  • Depending on Money
    • Complexity and the Study of Capitalist Money in Anthropology and IR: An Overview
    • The Everyday in Kenya: Knowingly Disadvantaged
    • Global Monetary Relations and Financial Inclusion in Kenya
    • Conclusion: Money as a Forceful Relation of Dependency
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
  • Chapter 9
  • A State of Numbers
    • Technologies of Government
    • Budget Politics—Inside the State
    • “NDP, JAF, GAPR, MTBF, AFPR”—Formal Rationality and Its Failures
    • Formal Forms and Certain Uncertainties—The Police Budget
    • Files—The Papery Heart of the State
    • Technology and (or) Society?
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
    • References
  • Afterword
  • Index
  • About the Contributors