Ruling The Margins

Author : Prem Kumar Rajaram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317621065

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Administrative rule is a type of rule centered on devising and implementing regulations governing how we live and how we conduct ourselves economically and politically, and sometimes culturally. The principle feature of this type of rule is the important question about how things should be arranged and for what purpose becomes a bureaucratic matter. Histories of the global south are rarely used to explain contemporary political structures or phenomena. This book uses histories of colonial power and colonial state-making to shed light on administrative government as a form of rule. Prem Kumar Rajaram eloquently presents how administrative power is a social process and the authority and terms of rule derived are tenuous, dependent on producing unitary meaning and direction to diverse political, social and economic relationships and practices.

Author : Prem Kumar Rajaram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317621072

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Ruling the Margins by Prem Kumar Rajaram Pdf

Administrative rule is a type of rule centered on devising and implementing regulations governing how we live and how we conduct ourselves economically and politically, and sometimes culturally. The principle feature of this type of rule is the important question about how things should be arranged and for what purpose becomes a bureaucratic matter. Histories of the global south are rarely used to explain contemporary political structures or phenomena. This book uses histories of colonial power and colonial state-making to shed light on administrative government as a form of rule. Prem Kumar Rajaram eloquently presents how administrative power is a social process and the authority and terms of rule derived are tenuous, dependent on producing unitary meaning and direction to diverse political, social and economic relationships and practices.

Author : Timothy Raeymaekers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137333995

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Violence on the Margins by Timothy Raeymaekers Pdf

This survey of various African and Asian conflicts examines people's experiences on territorial borders and the ways they affect political configurations. By focusing on individuals' routines and daily life, these contributions treat borderland dynamics as actual political units with their own actions and outcomes.

Author : Michele Lancione
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317063995

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Rethinking Life at the Margins by Michele Lancione Pdf

Experimenting with new ways of looking at the contexts, subjects, processes and multiple political stances that make up life at the margins, this book provides a novel source for a critical rethinking of marginalisation. Drawing on post-colonialism and critical assemblage thinking, the rich ethnographic works presented in the book trace the assemblage of marginality in multiple case-studies encompassing the Global North and South. These works are united by the approach developed in the book, characterised by the refusal of a priori definitions and by a post-human and grounded take on the assemblage of life. The result is a nuanced attention to the potential expressed by everyday articulations and a commitment to produce a processual, vitalist and non-normative cultural politics of the margins. The reader will find in this book unique challenges to accepted and authoritative thinking, and provides new insights into researching life at the margins.

Author : Brent R. Grover
Publisher : Natl Assn Wholesale-Distr
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Physical distribution of goods
ISBN : 193401415X

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Strategic Pricing for Distributors: Tools and Rules for Building Higher Margins by Brent R. Grover Pdf

Author : Carolyn Custis James
Publisher : Lexham Press
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781683590811

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Finding God in the Margins by Carolyn Custis James Pdf

The ancient book of Ruth speaks into today's world with astonishing relevance. In four short episodes, readers encounter refugees, undocumented immigrants, poverty, hunger, women's rights, male power and privilege, discrimination, and injustice. In Finding God in the Margins, Carolyn Custis James reveals how the book of Ruth is about God, the questions that surface when life falls apart, and how God reaches into the margins and chooses two totally marginalized women who, in the eyes of the patriarchal culture, are zeros. Against the backdrop of disturbing issues in today's world, this bracing narrative puts on display a radical gospel way of living together as human beings that shouts the Kingdom of God, foreshadows Jesus' gospel, and raises the bar for men and women, then and now.

Author : A J van der Walt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847315106

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Property in the Margins by A J van der Walt Pdf

Having its origins in the process of transformation and land reform that began to take shape in South Africa at the end of the last century, this strikingly original analysis of property starts from deep inside the property regime and not from a distant or abstract perspective on property rules and practices. Focusing on issues of stability and change in a transformative setting and on the role of tradition and legal culture in that context, the book argues that a property regime, including the system of property holdings and the rules and practices that entrench and protect them, tends to insulate itself against change through the security- and stability-seeking tendency of tradition and legal culture, including the deep assumptions about security and stability embedded in the rights paradigm, rhetoric and logic that dominate current legal culture. The rights paradigm tends to stabilise the current distribution of property holdings by securing extant property holdings on the assumption that they are lawfully acquired, socially important and politically and morally legitimate. This function of the rights paradigm tends to resist or minimise change, including change brought about by morally, politically and legally legitimate and authorised reform or transformation efforts. The author's goal is to gauge the lasting power of the rights paradigm by investigating its effects in the margins of property law and of society, by establishing the actual efficacy and power of reformist or transformative anti-eviction policies and legislation aimed at the protection of marginalised and weak land users and occupiers in areas such as landlord-tenant law, eviction of unlawful occupiers of land and other restrictions on the landowner's power to enforce a stronger right to exclusive possession. Ultimately the book's aim is to explore the possibility of opening up theoretical space where justice-inspired changes to (or transformation of) the extant property regime can be imagined and discussed more or less fruitfully from an unusual perspective, a perspective from the margins which is valuable for any theoretical consideration or discussion of property.

Author : David Shoemaker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198715672

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Responsibility from the Margins by David Shoemaker Pdf

This study develops a pluralistic quality of will theory of responsibility, motivated by our ambivalence to real life cases of marginal agency, such as those with clinical depression, scrupulosity, psychopathy, autism, intellectual disability, and more. Our ambivalent responses suggest that such agents are responsible in some ways but not others. A tripartite theory is developed to account for this fact of our ambivalence via exploration of the appropriateness conditions of three distinct categories of our pan-cultural emotional responsibility responses: attributability, answerability, and accountability.

Author : Frances Julia Riemer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791490730

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Working at the Margins by Frances Julia Riemer Pdf

Working at the Margins describes and analyzes the move, from welfare rolls to paid employment, of adults who were marginalized from the mainstream by race, ethnicity, language, and economic status. Frances Julia Riemer utilizes ethnographic data gathered over two years from four workplaces that employed thirty seven former welfare recipients. She examines how the private sector accommodates these workers and their differences and how the workers themselves negotiate the barriers they experience. The book illustrates how government policies and adult-education initiatives, designed ostensibly to create opportunities, often reify existing inequalities.

Author : Caroline Tagg,Mel Evans
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110670837

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Message and Medium by Caroline Tagg,Mel Evans Pdf

Studies of digital communication technologies often focus on the apparently unique set of multimodal resources afforded to users and the development of innovative linguistic strategies for performing mediatised identities and maintaining online social networks. This edited volume interrogates the novelty of such practices by establishing a transhistorical approach to the study of digital communication. The transhistorical approach explores language practices as lived experiences grounded in historical contexts, and aims to identify those elements of human behaviour that transcend historical boundaries, looking beyond specific developments in communication technologies to understand the enduring motivations and social concerns that drive human communication. The volume reveals long-term patterns in the indexical functions of seemingly innovative written and multimodal resources and the ideologies that underpin them, and shows that methods are not necessarily contingent on their datasets: historical analytic frameworks can be applied to digital data and newer approaches used to understand historical data. These insights present exciting opportunities for English language researchers, both historical and modern.

Author : Javier Auyero,Philippe I. Bourgois,Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190221447

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Violence at the Urban Margins by Javier Auyero,Philippe I. Bourgois,Nancy Scheper-Hughes Pdf

The inhabitants of the urban margins are hardly ever heard in discussions about public safety.

Author : Janet Klein
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804777759

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The Margins of Empire by Janet Klein Pdf

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Ottoman state identified multiple threats in its eastern regions. In an attempt to control remote Kurdish populations, Ottoman authorities organized them into a tribal militia and gave them the task of subduing a perceived Armenian threat. Following the story of this militia, Klein explores the contradictory logic of how states incorporate groups they ultimately aim to suppress and how groups who seek autonomy from the state often attempt to do so through state channels. In the end, Armenian revolutionaries were not suppressed and Kurdish leaders, whose authority the state sought to diminish, were empowered. The tribal militia left a lasting impact on the region and on state-society and Kurdish-Turkish relations. Putting a human face on Ottoman-Kurdish histories while also addressing issues of state-building, local power dynamics, violence, and dispossession, this book engages vividly in the study of the paradoxes inherent in modern statecraft.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032083786

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Margins for Manoeuvre in Cold War Europe by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

The Cold War is conventionally regarded as a superpower conflict that dominated the shape of international relations between World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Smaller powers had to adapt to a role as pawns in a strategic game of the superpowers, its course beyond their control. This edited volume offers a fresh interpretation of twentieth-century smaller European powers - East-West, neutral and non-aligned - and argues that their position vis-à-vis the superpowers often provided them with an opportunity rather than merely representing a constraint. Analysing the margins for manoeuvre of these smaller powers, the volume covers a wide array of themes, ranging from cultural to economic issues, energy to diplomacy and Bulgaria to Belgium. Given its holistic and nuanced intervention in studies of the Cold War, this book will be instrumental for students of history, international relations and political science.

Author : bell hooks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317588344

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Feminist Theory by bell hooks Pdf

When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative." Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented in the book remains as provocative and relevant as ever. Written in hooks's characteristic direct style, Feminist Theory embodies the hope that feminists can find a common language to spread the word and create a mass, global feminist movement.

Author : Sanjukta Das Gupta,Raj Sekhar Basu
Publisher : Primus Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789380607108

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Narratives from the Margins by Sanjukta Das Gupta,Raj Sekhar Basu Pdf

Adivasis have principally been studied in the context of rebellion, environmental history and the politics of identity. However, preoccupations with definitions and notions of identity, while important in themselves, tend to shift attention away from the inner lives of these communities. This book deals with different aspects of the histories of adivasi communities -- from Rajasthan in the west to Bengal and Orissa in the east. The essays in this book discuss a range of issues affecting the socio-economic and cultural life of adivasis and explore the long term continuities and discontinuities between different political regimes. They also reflect some of the new concerns that have come up relating to methodology and sources, historiography and colonial concerns, the impact of missionaries, gender issues, the agrarian situation, famines and migration. Some of the issues addressed in this volume are the genesis and development of 'tribal' studies in India during the colonial period; the peasantization of adivasi groups and their assimilation within the Hindu caste fold as reflected in Tulsidas' Ramcharitmanas; the work of the Protestant missions among the Santals of Chotanagpur; the social and ritual relations between the Bhils and the Rajput ruling dynasties of Dungarpur in southern Rajasthan; the aspect of agrarian change among the Hos of Singhbhum; the factors behind the migration from Chotanagpur, its nature and organization and its impact upon the adivasi village community; the question of women's agency in colonial Chotanagpur; and an exploration of land rights, witchcraft, employment patterns and how women challenged patriarchy in their everyday lives; and the impact of globalisation and liberalization upon adivasis in contemporary India. The book will be of use to students and scholars of history, anthropology and sociology and also to policy-planners.