Publications

Kapferer, Bruce (ed.) (2004): The world Trade Center and Global Crisis.
Critical Perspectives. New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Numerous humanly caused destructions of just the last hundred years dwarf the
World Trade Center disaster, and the attention still addressed to it may over
the next few years appear disproportionate. But the significance of events is
always determined by the social, political, and cultural forces that are articulated through a particular event. The attack of 9/11 was an event waiting to happen, and when it did occur the event itself became a catalyst and impetus
for the changing and redirection of global realities. This volume offers provocative assessments of the reaction to the event from a variety of perspectives that will no doubt stimulate the debate on the meaning and consequences of 9/11.

Contributors:
Bruce Kapferer, Marshall Sahlins, Keith Hart, Jonathan Friedman, Allen Feldman, Michael Humphrey, Ibrahim Aoude, Michael Rowlands, John Gledhill, Leif Manger

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Kapferer, Bruce (ed.) (2004): State, Sovereignty, War. Civil Violence in
Emerging Global Realities. New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books.

The very institution of the state is widely conceived of as inseparable from
war. If it constitutes peace within the borders or order of its sovereignty,
this very peace may be the condition for its potential for war with those other
states and social formation outside it. This volume represents different
analytical standpoints and positions within global rocesses, inviting further discussion on contemporary realities and the development of new formations of war and violence.

Contents:
Bruce Kapferer, Introduction - Allen Feldman, Deterritorialized Wars of Public Safety - Charles W. Brown, Where's Jessica? Myth, Nation, and War in America"s Heartland - Yngve Lithman, Wars, Europe, and Visions of the World - Carolyn Nordstrom, Invisible Empires - Caroline Ifeka, Market Forces, Political Violence, and War - Leif Manger, Reflections on War and State and the Sudan - Heidi Moksnes, Militarized Democracies - K. Ravi Raman, Muthanga: A Spark of Hope - Christopher C. Taylor, Kings or Presidents? War and the State in Pre-
and Post-Genocidal Rwande - Jakob Rigi, Chaos, Conspiracy, and Spectacle: The Russian War against Chechnya - Glenn Bowman, About a Wall - Staffan Löfving, Paramilitaries of the Empire, Guatemala, Colombia, and Israel