Introduction Part I: Ethnographies of Infrastructure: Assemblage, Experimentation, and Mobilization
1. Contingent statecraft: infrastructures, political creativity, and experimentation
2. Materialising the state: the meaning of water infrastructure
3. Driving into the nation-state: driving, roads, and selfhood in a post-socialist milieu
4. State of the grain: grain of the state: the political- and moral-economy of rice in Indonesia Part II: Dialectics of Security, Surveillance, and Struggle
5. Indigenous social policy, settler colonial dependencies, and toxic lingerings: living through mining and militarism in the Anthropocene
6. Awkward biculturalism: embodying ambiguity in New Zealand Army haka
7. Fear of a free lunch: markets, publics, and the would-be gift Part III: Sensory States, and their Contingent Citizenries
8. Intimate tonguing: the governance of the tongue in smokefree Australia
9. Sensing late-liberal state failure: ecologies of resistance in a post-industrial German city
10. Dialysis in the desert: blood, biomedial technologies, and transformation in Central Australia
11. 'Looking for a nice face': shifting states of marriage and intimate citizenship in Papua New Guinea
12. The state of silence as sensory and social: towards an anthropological appreciation