Download or read book Patrons and Power written by Sandra T. Barnes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986, this urban political ethnography focusses on Mushin, a large suburb of metropolitan Lagos, Nigeria. It explores the mechanisms which bridge the various social categories to bring about political interaction. The book traces the development of Mushin from a collection of rural villages to its full status as a political community. It analyses structures and processes and the ways in which, since the 19th century, the system has responded to colonial, civilian and military regimes. It examines the tactics ordinary people use to meet their needs and the ways in which political aspirants manipulate the system to acquire and wield power.
Download or read book Under the Gun written by Niloufer A. Siddiqui and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political parties are integral to democracy and yet they frequently engage in anti-democratic, violent behaviour. Parties can employ violence directly, outsource violence to gangs and militias, or form electoral alliances with non-state armed actors. When do parties engage in, or facilitate, violence? What determines the strategies of violence that they employ? Drawing on data from Pakistan, Under the Gun argues that party violence is not a simple manifestation of weak state capacity but instead the intentional product of political incentives, further complicating the process of democratization. Using a rigorous multi-method approach based on over a hundred interviews and numerous surveys, the book demonstrates that a party's violence strategy depends on the incentives it faces in the subnational political landscape in which it operates, the cost it incurs from its voters for violent acts, and its organizational capacity for violence.
Download or read book The Pollaiuolo Brothers written by Alison Wright and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painters, draftsmen, goldsmiths, sculptors, and designers, the Pollaiuolo brothers of fifteenth-century Florence produced some of the most beautiful works of the Italian Renaissance.
Download or read book In the Wake of Disaster written by Ayesha Siddiqi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the state's responsibility to its people in the aftermath of a natural hazard based disaster? The book sets out to address this seemingly simple question, after large scale floods devastated Pakistan in 2010 and then again in 2011. Along the way it delves into rich detail about people's everday encounters with the state in Pakistan, uncovers postcolonial discourses on rights of citizenship and dispels mainstream understanding of Islamist groups as presenting an alternative development paradigm to the state. Based on detailed ethnographic fieldwork, In the Wake of the Disaster forces the reader to look beyond narratives of Pakistan as the perennial 'failing state' falling victim to an imminent 'Islamist takeover'. The book shifts the conversation from hysteria and sensationalism surrounding Pakistan to the everyday. In doing so it transforms our understanding of contemporary disasters.
Download or read book Politics of Socio Spatial Transformation in Pakistan written by Asad Ur Rehman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics of Socio-Spatial Transformation in Pakistan analyses the relationship between socio-spatial transformation, styles of leadership and nature of constituents in Pakistan. It examines the way social change influences politics and leadership in its most populated province. Offering a unique viewpoint to study the relationship between politics and social change by examining the nature of relationship between leaders and their constituents, the author introduces the concept of Gradients of Engagements. The book describes the way values of engagement (Talluq) and styles of leadership mediate engagements among politicians, citizens and state bureaucracy in villages and small towns of Pakistani Punjab. Starting with the mapping of socio-economic and spatio-demographic non-metropolitan locales, the book illustrates the centrality of the processes of "rurbanization" and "governmentalization". It points out how political leaders mediate these processes, personal and public demands of their constituents’ invoking claims or representativeness and public service. The author breaks engagements between leaders and constituents into four gradients of representation (elections), public service delivery (development), everyday problem-solving (governance) and collective action, thus providing a contextualized and grounded comprehension of the process democratization and its substantive and performative aspects. In addition to providing a historical sketch of economic development, evolution of social organization and development of political institutions in Punjab, the book includes an ethnography of political elites and study of everyday political engagements to show how the styles of leadership mediates the process of institutional development and public service delivery in "rurban" Punjab. A novel contribution to the study of political processes such as state formation, collective action, representation, and citizenship in a comparative manner embedded in space and informed by cultural meanings, the book will be of interest to researchers studying South Asian, Pakistan and Punjab/Sikh studies, Development Studies and Urban Studies.
Download or read book Parties and Political Change in South Asia written by James Chiriyankandath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past seven decades and more political parties have become an essential feature of the political landscape of the South Asian subcontinent, serving both as a conduit and product of the tumultuous change the region has experienced. Yet they have not been the focus of sustained scholarly attention. This collection focuses on different aspects of how major parties have been agents of - and subject to - change in three South Asian states (India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka), examining some of the apparent paradoxes of politics in the subcontinent and covering issues such as gender, religion, patronage, clientelism, political recruitment and democratic regression. Recurring themes are the importance of personalities (and the corresponding neglect of institutionalisation) and the lack of pluralism in intraparty affairs, factors that render parties and political systems vulnerable to degeneration. This book was published as a special issue of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics.
Download or read book Journal of Proceedings of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry written by National Grange and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in South Asia written by Sten Widmalm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of the processes and actors contributing to autocratization in South Asia. It provides an enhanced understanding of the interconnectedness of the different states in the region, and how that may be related to autocratization. The book analyzes issues of state power, the support for political parties, questions relating to economic actors and sustainable economic development, the role of civil society, questions of equality and political culture, political mobilization, the role of education and the media, as well as topical issues such as the Covid pandemic, environmental issues, migration, and military and international security. Structured in five sections, contributions by international experts describe and explain outcomes at the national level in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The final section analyzes conditions for democracy and autocratization and how they are affected by the interplay of political forces at the international level in this region. India – building an ethnic state? Pakistan – the decline of civil liberties Bangladesh – towards one-party rule Sri Lanka – the resilience of the ethnic state How to comprehend autocratization in South Asia – three broad perspectives This innovative handbook is the first to describe and to explain ongoing trends of autocratization in South Asia, demonstrating that drivers of political change also work across boundaries. It is an important reference work for students and researchers of South Asian Studies, Asian Studies, Area Studies and Political Science. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Download or read book Journal of Proceedings of the Session of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry written by National Grange and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Franciscan written by Michael Raduga and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-17 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramon kills the man who murdered his fiancée and flees to the New World disguised as a Franciscan Friar. In Mexico, he lives a life of debauchery, but when his girlfriend attempts suicide, and he repents and vows to take his religion seriously and become a holy monk. His superiors send him to New Mexico to carry Catholicism to the Indians. Once there, he discovers that the Spanish soldiers are abusing the Indians and the pastor at the Pecos Pueblo is sexually abusing the boys.
Download or read book A Column of Attack on behalf of the Ballot By A Soldier of the People written by COLUMN. and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Correspondence of Two Brothers written by Lady Guendolen Ramsden and published by London, Longmans. This book was released on 1906 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Oath of Swords and Sword Brother written by David Weber and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whom the gods would recruit, they first tick off . . . Our Hero: The unlikely Paladin, Bahzell Bahnakson of the Horse Stealer Hradani. He's no knight in shining armor. He's a hradani, a race known for their uncontrollable rages, bloodthirsty tendencies, and inability to maintain civilized conduct. None of the other Five Races of man like the hradani. Besides his ethnic burden, Bahzell has problems of his own to deal with: a violated hostage bond, a vengeful prince, a price on his head. He doesn't want to mess with anybody else's problems, let alone a god's. Let alone the War God's! So how does he end up a thousand leagues from home, neck-deep in political intrigue, assassins, demons, psionicists, evil sorcery, white sorcery, dark gods, good gods, bad poets, greedy landlords, and most of Bortalik Bay Well, it's all the War God's fault. . . . PLUS A brand new 50,000 word novella, Sword Brother At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
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Download or read book Property Control and Social Strategies in Settlers in a Middle Eastern Plain written by Barbara C. Aswad and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spaces of Conflict in Everyday Life written by Martin Sökefeld and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflicts are everyday situations and experiences with which people have to cope. Focusing on particularly conflict-prone parts of Asia, the contributions to this book analyze the dynamics of conflicts from the perspectives of the actors involved, and pay particular attention to aspects like mobilization, exclusion, segregation, the role of institutions and the construction of antagonistic identities. The book gathers case studies based on long-term fieldwork from conflicts in Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir.
