'The real is relational'

Well, I only discovered my theoretical framework of analysis while drafting Chapter Three of the thesis. It was tucked away in a reference by Akhil Gupta in his key article Blurred Boundaries on everyday practices of postcolonial bureaucrats: Research on the state, with its focus on large-scale structures, epochal events, major policies, and "important" people (Evans et al. 1985; Skocpol 1979), has failed to illuminate the quotidian practices (Bourdieu 1977) of bureaucrats th