Performing State Boundaries

Christof Lammer is a social anthropologist and Postdoctoral Assistant in the Department of Society, Knowledge and Politics, University of Klagenfurt. He has co-edited special issues on ‘Measuring Kinship’ (2021, Social Analysis) and ‘Infrastructures of Value’ (2023, Ethnos). He is also a co-organizer of the Scientific Network ‘Anthropology and China(s)’ (2021–2025).

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Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations



Introduction: Performative Boundary Work



PART I: State Boundaries in a Food Network



Chapter 1. Participation and Anaglyphic Boundary Repertoires

Chapter 2. Eco-Certification and Scripts of Community

Chapter 3. Acting as Father-State and Mother-Society



PART II: State Boundaries in Democratic Bureaucracy



Chapter 4. Democracy and Paternalism Folded in Documents

Chapter 5. Anticipating Bureaucratic Standardization

Chapter 6. Measuring Familism, Marking Corruption



Conclusion: Unblurring the Multiplicity of State Boundaries



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Index