In the Shadows of the State
Title | In the Shadows of the State PDF eBook |
Author | Alpa Shah |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2010-08-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822392933 |
In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful critique based on extensive ethnographic research in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India officially created in 2000. While the realization of an independent Jharkhand was the culmination of many years of local, regional, and transnational activism for the rights of the region’s culturally autonomous indigenous people, Alpa Shah argues that the activism unintentionally further marginalized the region’s poorest people. Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research in Jharkhand, she follows the everyday lives of some of the poorest villagers as they chase away protected wild elephants, try to cut down the forests they allegedly live in harmony with, maintain a healthy skepticism about the revival of the indigenous governance system, and seek to avoid the initial spread of an armed revolution of Maoist guerrillas who claim to represent them. Juxtaposing these experiences with the accounts of the village elites and the rhetoric of the urban indigenous-rights activists, Shah reveals a class dimension to the indigenous-rights movement, one easily lost in the cultural-based identity politics that the movement produces. In the Shadows of the State brings together ethnographic and theoretical analyses to show that the local use of global discourses of indigeneity often reinforces a class system that harms the poorest people.
In the Shadows of State and Capital
Title | In the Shadows of State and Capital PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Striffler |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780822328636 |
In the Shadows of State and Capital tells the story of how Ecuadorian peasants gained, and then lost, control of the banana industry.
Government of the Shadows
Title | Government of the Shadows PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Michael Wilson |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2009-03-15 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
An expose of what really goes on behind the closed doors of state power
A Dictionary of African Politics
Title | A Dictionary of African Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Cheeseman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 2019-02-21 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0192524828 |
With over 400 A-Z entries, this new dictionary provides clear and authoritative definitions of terms within the fast-growing field of African Politics. It includes coverage on elections, parties and judiciaries, but also popular protest, gender-relations, the politics of development, and Africa's international relations. Entries comprise of major events and figures within African Politics, including the East African Community and independance, as well as covering key terms of particular relevance to Africa such as neopatrimonialism, queue voting, and post-conflict power sharing. Written by a world-leading political scientist working on the area of African politics, this dictionary is an essential guide for both undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics, journalists, and researchers working on African politics alike.
Shadows of War
Title | Shadows of War PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Nordstrom |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780520239777 |
Annotation This book captures the human face of the frontlines, revealing both the visible and the hidden realities of contemporary war, power, and international profiteering in the 21st century.
Governing in the Shadows
Title | Governing in the Shadows PDF eBook |
Author | Paula Cristina Roque |
Publisher | Hurst Publishers |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2021-09-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1787387356 |
This book traces three decades of securitisation in Angola. As a governing strategy during war and peacetime, it muted the aspirations of those on opposing sides, distorted the state, emboldened elites and redefined the identity of Angolans. Through this lens, Paula Cristina Roque provides an original account of Angola’s post-conflict state-building. Securitisation protected the interests of President dos Santos, the ruling MPLA party and the elites supporting the regime. Angola’s array of security forces and infrastructure provided an alternative to a fully functioning executive, at national, provincial and local levels. The intrusive way in which any form of dissent or activism was crushed allowed the presidency to control the direction and narrative of the post-war years. But the façade of democracy, development and stability hid a very different reality for the majority of Angolans, who remained poor, disenfranchised and marginalised. Roque explores the inner workings of the intelligence services, army and presidential guard, explaining the trajectory of a survivalist and fearful regime presiding over scarcities and injustices. She shows that the survival of national security and governing elites was the highest priority. The ‘shadows’ held far more power than institutions, and weakened them–widening the gap between government and governed.
No Justice in the Shadows
Title | No Justice in the Shadows PDF eBook |
Author | Alina Das |
Publisher | Bold Type Books |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2020-04-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 156858945X |
This provocative account of our immigration system's long, racist history reveals how it has become the brutal machine that upends the lives of millions of immigrants today. Each year in the United States, hundreds of thousands of people are arrested, imprisoned, and deported, trapped in what leading immigrant rights activist and lawyer Alina Das calls the "deportation machine." The bulk of the arrests target people who have a criminal record -- so-called "criminal aliens" -- the majority of whose offenses are immigration-, drug-, or traffic-related. These individuals are uprooted and banished from their homes, their families, and their communities. Through the stories of those caught in the system, Das traces the ugly history of immigration policy to explain how the U.S. constructed the idea of the "criminal alien," effectively dividing immigrants into the categories "good" and "bad," "deserving" and "undeserving." As Das argues, we need to confront the cruelty of the machine so that we can build an inclusive immigration policy premised on human dignity and break the cycle once and for all.