ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Paulo Freire, Antonio Gramsci, Michel Foucault
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Lecture 11: politics and inequality - culture of representation. Country a territorial area, politically recognized as a country both by people within the territory and by governments outside of it, on the basis of historical, material, and geographical factors? (webster"s dictionary) Difficult for the dene a stateless nation or the kurds, whose homeland is divided between iran, turkey and iraq. Often treated as synonymous with a country. Used when referring to issues of governance and the use of political power. Pluralist theorists ignore the state and look at formal institutions of governance. Marxists see that state and look at formal institutions of governance. Marxists see the state as an instrument of capitalist accumulation. State a set of institutions successfully claiming a monopoly over political rule-making and the legitimate use of violence and coercion within a given territory (webster"s. Like racketeer, states provide protection for a cost. Feudal era - knights protect serfs who provide labour.