State-effects as state power: Expectation, anxiety and fear in the Inambari valley

• Autor: Lewis Denegri, Francisco
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2012
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/4421
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/4421
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: State; infrastructure; feelings; everyday; environment; Estado; infraestructura; emociones; medio ambiente; cotidianeidad.

This ethnography examines the (re)production of the Peruvian state’s power in the fabric of the everyday in the Inambari valley, located in Puno. I argue that focusing on both real and imaginary ‘State-effects’ provides us with a way of tracing the Peruvian state’s power in this context. Further, I examine the social effects of the convergence of two infrastructural projects, both geared towards global, neo-liberal integration, arguing that this convergence led to the creation of a social milieu fraught with feelings of expectation, anxiety, optimism and fear.