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Abstract
Conventional understandings of the state posit it as an external agency that acts as a neutral arbiter of competing interests in the social space. The state is assumed to be the prime signifier of the ‘political’, unrelated to the social whole.[i] Correspondingly, the state is taken to be the central locus from which power emanates, and the main function of this power is to control or curb civil society.
[i]Often in the nature of a Weberian state as a bureaucratic organization with its various administrative institutions, army and police personnel, imbued with a formal legal rationality.