Hierarchy and Power in Pre-National Buddhist States
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 843
ISSN: 0026-749X
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In: Modern Asian studies, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 843
ISSN: 0026-749X
In: Comparative studies in society and history, Band 35, Heft 1, S. 133-158
ISSN: 1475-2999
Studies of what we call modern societies frequently take one of two major perspectives. The first emphasizes an ever-increasing constraining or regulatory power (Weber's iron cage [1976], or Foucault's discipline and regulation [1979, 1980]). The second tradition seems to contradict the first by emphasizing trends, such as a "democratic revolution" (de Tocqueville 1969:702–5; Laclau and Mouffe 1985:152) or the extension of citizenship rights (Marshall 1973; Bendix 1977). In this essay I argue that the twin processes of increasing regulation on one hand, and institutionalization of individual rights on the other, are closely linked. I make this argument by interpreting the transformation of relations between the state and peasants in Siam (Thailand) during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and through an assessment of two books which have been particularly influential in comparative studies during the 1980s: James Scott'sWeapons of the Weak(1985) and Benedict Anderson'sImagined Communities(1983).
In: Development and change, Band 22, Heft 3, S. 421-443
ISSN: 1467-7660
ABSTRACTA pervasive assumption in the critical literature and practice of development has been that capitalism and state‐building has undermined relatively autonomous village communities in which there were equalizing institutions of mutual help or gift‐giving. These assumptions tend to retain the dualisms of modernization theories by reversing them. The author argues that we should instead challenge these dualisms, and look for complexity and contradictions within both the past and the present. He then draws on a study in Thailand to show how the 'village' was a product of state‐building, and how in the past the idiom of 'helping' constituted relations of domination and extraction as well as more egalitarian relations of mutual help. The use of the language of the gift confers power on the giver; since the 1930s, state officials have appropriated and transformed the language of 'helping' to coerce villagers into working on 'development' projects. Until the 1970s, villagers described 'development' as coerced serf labour, but since then, they have struggled with mixed results to redefine development as their right to participate in the national and global product. The author finishes by arguing that, in the context of the current global crisis of accumulation, we should reclaim rural development as a democratic right, opposing neoliberal attempts to redefine it as a gift which government and development agencies can discontinue at their will.
In: Sociologia ruralis, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 7-29
ISSN: 1467-9523
In: Challenges of the agrarian transition in Southeast Asia
In: Global social challenges journal, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 146-167
ISSN: 2752-3349
Exploitative working conditions for migrant workers in industrial fisheries have recently drawn considerable attention among activists and scholars, often with a focus on Asian fisheries. Even so, fish work can offer a better livelihood option than migrant workers might have in their home countries. These contradictions are apparent in fisheries around the world, including those based in Europe and North America. In this paper we explore the incongruities and patterns of working conditions for migrant workers in Irish fisheries, situating how the global seafood industry relies on a racialised labour force that is devalued to produce raw materials for high-value seafood products, before turning to an analysis of a decades-long campaign to improve Ireland's legal framework for migrant fish workers. Persistent campaign work illustrates how a multi-pronged approach, including legal strategies and actions to make the injustices in Irish fisheries more visible, is critical to provoking change, even as working conditions remain far short of most land-based sectors in that country.
In: Marine policy, Band 132, S. 104685
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Marine policy, Band 68, S. 39-46
ISSN: 0308-597X
In: Conservation & society: an interdisciplinary journal exploring linkages between society, environment and development, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 343
ISSN: 0975-3133
In: Political geography: an interdisciplinary journal for all students of political studies with an interest in the geographical and spatial aspects, Band 31, Heft 6, S. 358-367
ISSN: 0962-6298
In: Political geography, Band 31, Heft 6, S. 358-367
ISSN: 0962-6298
World Affairs Online
In: Canadian journal of development studies: Revue canadienne d'études du développement, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 119-135
ISSN: 0225-5189
The paper describes a research-training project for building social science research capacity at the National University of Laos (NUOL), supported by IDRC. At the international level, the project was structured as a flexible network of resource persons from six countries. The main successes of the project turned out to be unanticipated: the project offered significant insights to NUOL's ongoing assessment of its administrative capacity to manage university-based research. The flexibility of the network approach, combined with a structure that oriented the international network toward engaging with, and responding to, needs articulated by NUOL staff, proved crucial to the project's ability to respond to changing institutional needs in NUOL. (InWent/DÜI)
World Affairs Online
In: Environmental management: an international journal for decision makers, scientists, and environmental auditors, Band 22, Heft 6, S. 817-830
ISSN: 1432-1009
In: Conflicts in urban and regional development