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Alex Diamond University of Texas at Austin , USA akdiamond@utexas.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4041-2283 Social Problems, Volume 71, Issue 3, August 2024, Pages 875–893, https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spac042
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Alex Diamond, “The State is Coming”: The Emotional Content of State Formation through a Colombian Coca Substitution Program, Social Problems, Volume 71, Issue 3, August 2024, Pages 875–893, https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spac042
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How do states achieve popular recognition and symbolic power as “The State,” a collectively recognized entity that serves the common good? While classic work has described the state idea as produced by the actions of state officials, it is ultimately ordinary citizens who must recognize the state as such and consent to its rule. This article, based on 20 months of ethnographic research in a village that, after decades of armed group control, is a key site for the implementation of Colombia’s landmark peace deal, describes how the formation of the state’s symbolic power occurs (or not) through local emotions. I focus on a coca substitution program that has both stoked pre-existing local desires for the promise of the state as carrier of peace and progress and that has, largely because of its outsourcing to different contractors, failed to live up to its commitments, causing economic collapse and generating feelings of betrayal, mistrust, confusion, and impotence. I show how local feelings respond to the regional transformation state formation has caused, popular representations of the state, and their direct interactions with substitution program officials, including non-state actors. I argue that more than simply byproducts of state formation, these emotions are constitutive of the local imaginations of “The State” that are key to the state’s development of symbolic power. It is in the realm of everyday life and emotions, the interplay between local desires for state presence and the frustrations generated by their actual encounters with state power, that state rule is achieved—or not.
state formation, emotions, peace processes, Colombia, ethnography
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