The encrypted state : delusion and displacement in the Peruvian Andes / David Nugent
Material type: TextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781503609723
- 1503609723
- Odría, Manuel A. (Manuel Arturo), 1897-1974
- Partido Aprista Peruano -- History -- 20th century
- Odría, Manuel A. (Manuel Arturo), 1897-1974
- Partido Aprista Peruano
- Political stability -- Peru -- History -- 20th century
- Legitimacy of governments -- Peru -- History -- 20th century
- Dictatorship -- Peru -- History -- 20th century
- Amazonas (Peru) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Peru -- Politics and government -- 1919-1968
- History
- History
- Stabilité politique -- Pérou -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Légitimité des gouvernements -- Pérou -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Dictature -- Pérou -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Pérou -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1919-1968
- Histoire
- history (discipline)
- HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General
- History
- Electronic books
- Dictatorship
- Legitimacy of governments
- Political stability
- Politics and government
- Peru
- Peru -- Amazonas
- 1900-1999
- 985.06/3 23
- F3448 .N836 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sacropolitics -- The descent into madness -- The consolidation of casta rule -- Being (and seeing) like a state -- Divided elite and disordered state -- The sacropolitics of military conscription -- The sacropolitics of labor conscription -- Glimpses of danger and subversion
Why do seemingly rational states become paranoid and delusional? The encrypted state engages in a close analysis of political disorder to better understand political stability. David Nugent focuses on a crisis of rule in twentieth-century Peru, when officials believed they had lost the ability to govern and communicated in secret code to protect themselves from imaginary subversives. The encrypted state employs the notion of sacropolitics - the politics of mass group sacrifice - to make sense of this plague of dark fantasies. Nugent explores the role of state structures and everyday cultural practices in generating state delusion. He also investigates the part affect and imagination play in producing government paranoia. This book sheds important new light on the forces that variously promote or undermine organized political subjection.
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