Latest posts tagged with #StateFormation on Bluesky
State formation studies how states emerge, consolidate, and govern 🏛️📊 Through war, taxation, law, and administration, it explains why political authority takes different forms across history and regions. #StateFormation #PoliticalHistory
State formation traces how political power, institutions, and authority took shape over centuries 🏰➡️🏛️. Understanding it reveals why states differ so widely today. #StateFormation #PoliticalHistory
New research suggests early states grew not from surplus alone but from the tax potential of cereal grains. Writing followed as a tool for keeping track. A fresh phylogenetic view on why grain shaped political evolution. #Anthropology #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #StateFormation
🔸[Original Article] in Tapuya V8
Read “The politics of restless motion: water governance and state formation in Colombia’s upper Cauca basin, 1910–1940” 💧🌐
By Alejandro Ponce de León
doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2513196
#Governance #Colombia #hydraulics #StateFormation #STS #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
I wrote a piece on literacy, human capital formation, state capacity & development in South Africa. Link in the comments. #econsky #publicgoods #statecapacity #southafrica #stateformation #democracy #Education
New Article “The politics of restless motion: water governance and state formation in Colombia’s upper Cauca basin, 1910–1940”💧🌐
By Alejandro Ponce de León
🏞️Open Access: doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2513196
#Governance #Colombia #hydraulics #StateFormation #STS #Tapuya8 #OpenAccess
New excavations in Shandong reveal that early Zhou ritual platforms shaped China’s first shared identities long before the First Emperor. Political unity began not with conquest, but with communion. #Archaeology #Anthropology #China #StateFormation @antiquity.ac.uk
Ott’s genealogy frames the state as a product of power-laden processes, not a fixed essence, ripe for poststructuralist reimagining. #PowerDynamics #StateFormation (6/10)
FYI: Traditional alcoholic beverages linked to rise of complex political systems in early human societies #AlcoholicBeverages #SocialBonds #PoliticalSystems #StateFormation #CommunalDrinking
State formation = monopoly of violence + legitimacy 🔫📜. From feudal lords to bureaucratic empires, it’s the long, bloody path to order. Weber wasn’t joking: the state must be understood historically. 🧱🏛️ #StateFormation #ModernState
My review of @rmidura.bsky.social's Postal Intelligence is now available as a pre-print for The Seventeenth Century.
In short: if you are a #skystorian interested in the #17thC and/or #EarlyModern #communication, #intelligence, and #StateFormation, buy this book!
"Sheehan’s book asks us to reconsider which social theorist lurks more influentially behind the issue of state formation and so-called world order: Hobbes or Marx?" ~Journal of Modern History
MAKING A MODERN POLITICAL ORDER is available now!
#ndpress #politicaltheory #stateformation #history
Reposting this for the back to work crowd.
My book "Hard Work: Producing places, relations and value on a #PapuaNewGuinea resource frontier" has been published in full digital #OpenAccess.
#anthropology #PoliticalEcology #LandUse #NaturalResources #StateFormation
In addition to the canonical empirical papers on #Growth, a course on #African #development should do pre-colonial #institutions, #stateformation, #slavetrade, #colonialism, #culture, #Democracy & #media. That's what I did.. #Africa #SouthAfrica #EconTwitter
