Title The encrypted state : delusion and displacement in the Peruvian Andes / David Nugent.

Publication Info.	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]
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Summary	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
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-278) and index.
Contents	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
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Subject	Odría, Manuel A. (Manuel Arturo), 1897-1974.
	Odría, Manuel A. (Manuel Arturo), 1897-1974.
	Partido Aprista Peruano -- History -- 20th century.
	Partido Aprista Peruano.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Political stability -- Peru -- History -- 20th century.
	Political stability.
	Peru.
	Legitimacy of governments -- Peru -- History -- 20th century.
	Legitimacy of governments.
	Dictatorship -- Peru -- History -- 20th century.
	Dictatorship.
	Amazonas (Peru) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
	Peru -- Politics and government -- 1919-1968.
	Politics and government.
Chronological Term	1919-1968
	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Nugent, David. Encrypted state. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019 9781503609037 (DLC) 2018053500 (OCoLC)1074311615
ISBN	9781503609723 (electronic book)
	1503609723 (electronic book)
	9781503609037 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
	1503609030 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

Title The encrypted state : delusion and displacement in the Peruvian Andes / David Nugent.

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