GEOG 140 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anganwadi, Nationstates, Multinational Corporation
Document Summary
Spatializing states: toward an ethnography of neoliberal governmentality. Gupta and ferguson"s argument concerning transnational governmentality. : the relation between states and a range of contemporary supranational and transnational organizations that significantly overlap their traditional functions. These include transnational alliances forged by activists and grassroots organizations and the proliferation of voluntary organizations supported by complex networks of international and transnational funding and personnel. The outsourcing of the functions of the state to ngos and other nonstate agencies is a key feature, not only of the operation of national states, but of an emerging system of transnational governmentality. Example: in africa, government officials use their educational and institutional capital to start their own grassroots organizations. Oh, that"s just a bureaucrat with his own letterhead. the very conception of the state as a set of reified (concrete) and disembodied (free from its concrete form) structures is an effect of state practices themselves.
