Competing Power

Landscapes of Migration, Violence and the State
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-992-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 546 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Halstead, Narmala

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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. Materializing 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

Über Autor(innen)

Halstead, Narmala
Narmala Halstead is a Research Associate at the University of Sussex. Previously, she was a Reader in Anthropology at the University of East London (UEL) and also held a permanent lectureship at Cardiff University. Her research focuses on Guyana and Caribbean migrants and diaspora in New York, and currently she is working on digital personhood, rights, and debates in cities across three countries. She is the editor of the Journal of Legal Anthropology.