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

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgements --   |t Introduction. Competing Power: Landscapes of Violence, Migration and the State --   |t Chapter 1. Amidst Illegality and Violence: Flight and the State --   |t Chapter 2. Illegality and Big Ones: Disengaging Structural Violence --   |t Chapter 3. Local Others: Residents, Bandits, Migrants --   |t Chapter 4. Local Lives, Global Selves: New Local Imaginaries and ‘Go-and-Come’ --   |t Chapter 5. Re-presencing the Local --   |t Chapter 6. Co-occupying Public Power: Challenges, Abuse and Structural Violence --   |t Chapter 7. Materialising a Strange-Familiar Local: Individuals, Migrants’ Experiences and Strategies of Governance --   |t Chapter 8. In and Out of the Local: Blame-Sharing, Faulty Persons and the State --   |t Concluding Reflections --   |t Glossary --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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