American Ethnologist

Abu Ghraib, the security apparatus, and the performativity of power
BY STEVEN C. CATON and BERNARDO ZACKA

In this essay, the authors attempt to understand the acts of detainee abuse that took place at Abu Ghraib from the standpoint of apparatuses of power. Ever since Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), political theorists have implicitly relied on a Weberian bureaucratic ideal type to think about questions of responsibility and power in the context of organizations. The authors of this article seek to offer an alternative conception of the bureaucratic logic in place in the Iraqi prison.

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Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality

James Ferguson

Reconfiguring freedom: Muslim piety and the limits of secular law and public discourse in France

MAYANTHI L. FERNANDO

The road: An ethnography of the Albanian–Greek cross-border motorway
DIMITRIS DALAKOGLOU

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