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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Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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