Competing Power: Landscapes of Migration, Violence and the State

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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Main Author: Halstead, Narmala (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2018]
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Online Access:DE-1046
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DE-858
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Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (268 Seiten)
ISBN:9781785339936
DOI:10.1515/9781785339936

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