Competing Power : : Landscapes of Migration, Violence and the State / / Narmala Halstead.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Halstead, Narmala,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction. Competing Power: Landscapes of Violence, Migration and the State --; Chapter 1. Amidst Illegality and Violence: Flight and the State --; Chapter 2. Illegality and Big Ones: Disengaging Structural Violence --; Chapter 3. Local Others: Residents, Bandits, Migrants --; Chapter 4. Local Lives, Global Selves: New Local Imaginaries and ‘Go-and-Come’ --; Chapter 5. Re-presencing the Local --; Chapter 6. Co-occupying Public Power: Challenges, Abuse and Structural Violence --; Chapter 7. Materialising a Strange-Familiar Local: Individuals, Migrants’ Experiences and Strategies of Governance --; Chapter 8. In and Out of the Local: Blame-Sharing, Faulty Persons and the State --; Concluding Reflections --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785339936; 9783110998115
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785339936?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Narmala Halstead.

Drawing from ethnographic material based on long-term research, this volume considers competing forms of power at micro- and macro-levels in Guyana, where the local is marked by extensive migration, corruption, and differing levels of violence. It shows how the local is occupied and re-occupied by various powerful and powerless people and entities (“big ones” and “small ones”), and how it becomes the site of intense power negotiations in relation to external ideas of empowerment.