Voluminous States

“Responding to the changing ways in which states are colonizing previously inconceivable dimensions of life and livelihood in the ever-reinvented interests of territorial sovereignty, Voluminous States tackles real-life issues of state control. With its specific focus on three-dimensional space as itself a materiality as well as a force in political conceptions and social analysis, it will be welcomed by scholars interested in climate change, sustainability, sovereignty, territoriality, and beyond. This volume sparks the imagination.” - Marilyn Strathern, author of Relations: An Anthropological Account

“Taking materiality and dimensionality seriously in thinking about geopolitics, Voluminous States is likely to become a standard reference in developing debates in human geography, political theory, international relations, and anthropology. Global in reach, this is a great project that is executed extremely well.” - Stuart Elden, author of Shakespearean Territories

“[Voluminous States] provides a highly nuanced and textured examination of the tensions between the state’s intrusive attempts to flatten, homogenize, and control space.... Wide ranging studies lend this volume conceptual richness, social and cultural texture, and geographical diversity.... The book never fails to sustain the readers’ interest.” - Martin T. Fromm, Environment, Space, Place

"The essays in Voluminous States are a landmark contribution to the anthropology of the state that needs to be urgently read not only by political anthropologists/geographers or anthropologists of space, but also by anyone interested in understanding our perilous world." - Christos Lynteris, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute