1. Unpacking the Technopolitics of Privatization in Colombia: The Agrarian Bank and the Transformation of Citizen-State Relations, 1930-2010 • julián gómez-delgado, the new school for social research.

2. Securing the Countryside: Varieties of Rural State Building in China, Vietnam, Taiwan, and South Korea during the Cold War • Kevin Luo, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

3. Evolutionary Empire: Demystifying State Formation in Mughal South Asia 1556-1707 • safya morshed, London School of Economics.

4. Challenging Confucian-Legalist State: The Secret Languages and the Circulations of the Subaltern Knowledge of Politics in Premodern China • Zhen Wei, University of Edinburgh.