Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this violence kills between two and three million people, especially women and girls, and lower-caste and indigenous peoples. Yet India's poor are not disenfranchised; they actively participate in the democratic project. Nor is the state indifferent to the plight of the poor; it sponsors many poverty amelioration programs.
Gupta conducted ethnographic research among officials charged with coordinating development programs in rural Uttar Pradesh. Drawing on that research, he offers insightful analyses of corruption; the significance of writing and written records; and governmentality, or the expansion of bureaucracies. Those analyses underlie his argument that care is arbitrary in its consequences, and that arbitrariness is systematically produced by the very mechanisms that are meant to ameliorate social suffering. What must be explained is not only why government programs aimed at providing nutrition, employment, housing, healthcare, and education to poor people do not succeed in their objectives, but also why, when they do succeed, they do so unevenly and erratically.
Автор: Soe Tjen Marching Название: The End of Silence: Accounts of the 1965 Genocide in Indonesia ISBN: 9463720847 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789463720847 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 53430.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: This book presents the stories of individuals, who were - and still are - affected by violence and stigmatisation in the name of suppressing communism in Indonesia during the late 1960s.
Автор: Aljunied, Syed Muhd Khairudin Название: Colonialism, violence and muslims in southeast asia ISBN: 0415595002 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415595001 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 46950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book deals with the genesis, outbreak and far-reaching effects of a legal controversy and outbreak of mass violence which determined the course of British colonial rule after post World War Two in Singapore and Malaya. It will be of interest to scholars of British Colonial History and Decolonization and Asian History.
Автор: Durba Ghosh Название: Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947 ISBN: 1107186668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107186668 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 89760.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A major new study of the critical place of revolutionary terrorism in the colonial and postcolonial history of modern India. Durba Ghosh charts how the application of the rule of law was abrogated, reshaped, and transformed as the British faced challenges posed by a wave of violent terrorist campaigns.
Автор: Joseph Lawson Название: A Frontier Made Lawless: Violence in Upland Southwest China, 1800-1956 ISBN: 0774833696 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774833691 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 44880.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In the first Western language history of Liangshan, Joseph Lawson argues that the region was not inherently violent, but made violent by turmoil elsewhere in China.
Автор: Joseph Lawson Название: A Frontier Made Lawless: Violence in Upland Southwest China, 1800-1956 ISBN: 077483370X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774833707 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 29220.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region of Liangshan in southwest China was plagued by violence. Indigenous Nuosu communities clashed with Han migrants, the Qing and Republican states, and local warlords. The first English-language history of Liangshan, A Frontier Made Lawless challenges the view that ongoing violence was the result of population pressures, opium production, and the growth of local paramilitary groups. Instead, Joseph Lawson argues that the conflict resulted from the lack of a common framework for dealing with property disputes, compounded by the repeated destabilization of the region by turmoil elsewhere in China.
Автор: James A. Tyner Название: The Politics of Lists: Bureaucracy and Genocide under the Khmer Rouge ISBN: 1946684406 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781946684400 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 83590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Scholars from a number of disciplines have, especially since the advent of the war on terror, developed critical perspectives on a cluster of related topics in contemporary life: militarization, surveillance, policing, biopolitics (the relation between state power and physical bodies), and the like. James A. Tyner, a geographer who has contributed to this literature with several highly regarded books, here turns to the bureaucratic roots of genocide, building on insight from Hannah Arendt, Zygmunt Bauman, and others to better understand the Khmer Rouge and its implications for the broader study of life, death, and power.The Politics of Lists analyzes thousands of newly available Cambodian documents both as sources of information and as objects worthy of study in and of themselves. How, Tyner asks, is recordkeeping implicated in the creation of political authority? What is the relationship between violence and bureaucracy? How can documents, as an anonymous technology capable of conveying great force, be understood in relation to newer technologies like drones? What does data create and what does it destroy? Through a theoretically informed, empirically grounded study of the Khmer Rouge security apparatus, Tyner shows that lists and telegrams have often proved as deadly as bullet and bombs.
Автор: Stefan Eklof Amirell Название: Pirates of Empire: Colonisation and Maritime Violence in Southeast Asia ISBN: 1108484212 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108484213 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 99270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The suppression of piracy and maritime raiding was a keystone in the colonisation of Southeast Asia. This comparative study in colonial history explores how piracy was defined, contested and used to resist or justify colonial expansion, particularly from c.1850 to c.1920. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Автор: Baskara T Wardaya Название: Truth Will Out: Indonesian Accounts of the 1965 Mass Violence ISBN: 1922235148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781922235145 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 38590.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This striking compilation of essays surveys a variety of views about the 1965 mass violence in Indonesia and the current efforts to understand this event. Truth Will Out is the product of an oral history project involving senior and young researchers from Yogyakarta. The accounts presented include: a military man who continues to see the violence as justified, and who refuses survivors the status of victim; two Muslims who believe that the Communists were and continue to remain a threat to society; and a Catholic activist who reflects on how they were manipulated to support the violence. These accounts are complemented by the views of survivors of the violence, some of whom see this as a national problem that goes far beyond individual suffering. Truth Will Out provides a valuable window into why this past event still remains contested today, as well as why obstacles to reconciliation and full rehabilitation of the survivors still exist. *** While the focus is mass violence, the narratives present a much broader social portrait, describing the conditions in the years before the killings and the enduring effects of poverty and stigmatization for survivors....an invaluable source of firsthand accounts from a highly sensitive historical period. - The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 74, Issue 01, February 2015 *** Being a historian and ordained Jesuit priest, Baskara stresses in his conclusion - rather humble, and probably inspired by his Christian values - the importance of questioning 'where we ourselves stand' when dealing with '1965'; he does this without mentioning the problem of impunity and without acknowledging the importance of repairing injustice. Even so, his words are not empty. - Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, Vol. 171, Issue 1, 2015 (Series: Herb Feith Translation Series) [Subject: History, Asian Studies, Human Rights, Sociology]
Автор: Eric Tagliacozzo, Joshua Barker Название: Indonesia Journal: October 2014 ISBN: 0877278989 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780877278986 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 26300.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Indonesia is a semi-annual journal devoted to the timely study of Indonesia's culture, history, government, economy, and society. It features original scholarly articles, interviews, translations, and book reviews. Published Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program since April 1966, the journal provides area scholars and interested readers with contemporary analysis of Indonesia and an extensive archive of research pertaining to the nation and region. Currently, only back issues of Indonesia are available for purchase through Cornell University Press's website.
Автор: Damien Kingsbury Название: Sri Lanka and the Responsibility to Protect: Politics, Ethnicity and Genocide ISBN: 041572130X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415721301 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 46950.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book is about the issues and challenges facing the implementation of the Responsibility To Protect principle in the case of Sri Lanka, where the Tamil Tigers have been fighting to create a separate state.
Автор: James Flath, Norman Smith Название: Beyond Suffering: Recounting War in Modern China ISBN: 0774819561 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774819565 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 34310.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
China was afflicted by a brutal succession of conflicts through muchof the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Yet there has never beenclear understanding of how wartime suffering has defined the nation andshaped its people.
In Beyond Suffering, a distinguished group of historians ofmodern China look beyond the geopolitical aspects of war to explore itssocial, institutional, and cultural dimensions. The chapters in Part 1,“Society at War,” reveal how militarization and war canboth structure and destabilize society, while those in Part 2,“Institutional Engagement,” show how institutions and thepeople they represent can become pawns in larger power struggles.Lastly, Part 3, “Memory and Representation,” examines thevarious media, monuments, and social controls by which war has beenmemorialized.
Based on fragmented accounts of poorly understood incidents,Beyond Suffering pieces together a fuller picture of themultiple fronts on which wars in modern China have been fought,experienced, and remembered.
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