Subjects, Citizens, and Others - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Subjects, Citizens, and Others write by Benno Gammerl. This book was released on 2017-11-01. Subjects, Citizens, and Others available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bosnian Muslims, East African Masai, Czech-speaking Austrians, North American indigenous peoples, and Jewish immigrants from across Europe—the nineteenth-century British and Habsburg Empires were characterized by incredible cultural and racial-ethnic diversity. Notwithstanding their many differences, both empires faced similar administrative questions as a result: Who was excluded or admitted? What advantages were granted to which groups? And how could diversity be reconciled with demands for national autonomy and democratic participation? In this pioneering study, Benno Gammerl compares Habsburg and British approaches to governing their diverse populations, analyzing imperial formations to reveal the legal and political conditions that fostered heterogeneity.
Subjects, Citizens, Aliens and Others
Subjects, Citizens, Aliens and Others - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Subjects, Citizens, Aliens and Others write by Ann Dummett. This book was released on 1990-01. Subjects, Citizens, Aliens and Others available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Citizen and Subject
Citizen and Subject - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Citizen and Subject write by Mahmood Mamdani. This book was released on 2018-04-24. Citizen and Subject available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic identity in subjects. Many writers have understood colonial rule as either "direct" (French) or "indirect" (British), with a third variant--apartheid--as exceptional. This benign terminology, Mamdani shows, masks the fact that these were actually variants of a despotism. While direct rule denied rights to subjects on racial grounds, indirect rule incorporated them into a "customary" mode of rule, with state-appointed Native Authorities defining custom. By tapping authoritarian possibilities in culture, and by giving culture an authoritarian bent, indirect rule (decentralized despotism) set the pace for Africa; the French followed suit by changing from direct to indirect administration, while apartheid emerged relatively later. Apartheid, Mamdani shows, was actually the generic form of the colonial state in Africa. Through case studies of rural (Uganda) and urban (South Africa) resistance movements, we learn how these institutional features fragment resistance and how states tend to play off reform in one sector against repression in the other. The result is a groundbreaking reassessment of colonial rule in Africa and its enduring aftereffects. Reforming a power that institutionally enforces tension between town and country, and between ethnicities, is the key challenge for anyone interested in democratic reform in Africa.
From Subjects to Citizens
From Subjects to Citizens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Subjects to Citizens write by Taylor C. Sherman. This book was released on 2014-03-06. From Subjects to Citizens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book offers a fresh and timely perspective on the broader field of early postcolonial South Asian history.
The Will to Empower
The Will to Empower - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Will to Empower write by Barbara Cruikshank. This book was released on 2019-06-30. The Will to Empower available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do liberal democracies produce citizens who are capable of governing themselves? In considering this question, Barbara Cruikshank rethinks central topics in political theory, including the relationship between welfare and citizenship, democracy and despotism, and subjectivity and subjection. Drawing on theories of power and the creation of subjects, Cruikshank argues that individuals in a democracy are made into self-governing citizens through the small-scale and everyday practices of voluntary associations, reform movements, and social service programs. She argues that our empowerment is a measure of our subjection rather than of our autonomy from power. Through a close examination of several contemporary American "technologies of citizenship"—from welfare rights struggles to philanthropic self-help schemes to the organized promotion of self-esteem awareness—she demonstrates how social mobilization reshapes the political in ways largely unrecognized in democratic theory. Although the impact of a given reform movement may be minor, the techniques it develops for creating citizens far extend the reach of govermental authority. Combining a detailed knowledge of social policy and practice with insights from poststructural and feminist theory, The Will to Empower shows how democratic citizens and the political are continually recreated.
