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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- Provincial Administrators -- The Ecology of Field Administration -- Political Considerations -- 2: The Functional System -- Structure -- Administrative Functions -- Organisational Problems -- The Field Administrator and Politics -- Case 1: The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food -- Boundaries -- Internal Relationships -- External Relations -- 3: The Integrated Prefectoral System -- The Prefect and Other Field Services -- The Prefect and Local Government -- The Political Background -- Case 2: The Burmese Deputy Commissioner -- 4: The Unintegrated System -- External Services and The Prefect -- The Prefect and Local Government -- District Administration in New Nations -- The Future of District Administration in New States -- The Politics of Provincial Administration -- Case 3: The Northern Nigerian District Officer -- 5: Conclusion -- Common Elements -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Bibliography.

At the crossroads of coloniality, power, and knowledge : it is time to decolonise political concepts / Valentin Clavé-Mercier and Marie Wuth -- Historicising history : a critique enabling view of history / Karim Barakat -- The recalcitrance of white ignorance / Laurencia Sáenz Benavides -- The idealised subject of freedom and the refugee / Shahin Nasiri -- Politics without a proper locus. Political agency between action and practice / Henrike Kohpeiss and Marie Wuth -- Enfleshed political violences. Rethinking sexual violence from a decolonial critique to the political construction of the body as flesh / Cecilia Cienfuegos -- On translation, the politics of language, and anti-authoritarian political practice in the Southern Mediterranean / Laura Galián -- Decolonising sovereignty and reimagining autonomy : adivasi assertions and interpretations of law / Astha Saxena and Radhika Chitkara -- Indigeneity, autochthony, and belonging : conceptual ambiguity as an impediment to decolonisation in South Africa / Rafael Verbuyst.

In 2003, Norman M. Klein's docufable "Bleeding Through" raised questions of urban aesthetics and memory as part of the multimedia documentary "Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986." Now, 20 years later, this important text is reissued along with several essays addressing its central themes, such as the aesthetics and politics of urban memory, the development of Los Angeles since the 20th century, the role of urban imaginaries in US politics, or media evolution in the 21st century. The volume also features a long interview with Klein and two docufables from Klein's celebrated study "The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory", one being the kernel of the novella, the other imagining Walter Benjamin in L.A. Finally, the book contains links to two films featuring much of the multimedia material contained in the first edition.

This book examines steadily-growing increases in inequality within Western capitalist democracies, examining with care the differences between these democracies rooted in their culture and institutions.

It highlights the differences in growth and inequalities between different countries, pointing to the role of endogenous institutions that affect social inequalities as well as the relationship between redistribution and economic growth. The book presents extensive comparative research on institutional factors such as industrial relations, welfare systems, training and innovation policies.

Paying attention to diverse types of democracies and to the main features of left-wing parties, the book highlights the importance of politics, and of different types of democracies, in shaping social inequalities and diverse development paths. It will appeal to students and scholars interested in economic and labour sociology, welfare studies, comparative political economy, comparative welfare, varieties of capitalism, and comparative politics.

"This book explores how Vietnam's leadership conceptualises and conducts public diplomacy (PD) and offers a comparative analysis with regional powers. Drawing on social constructivism as its theoretical framework it investigates the rationale behind an authoritarian regime's implementation of public diplomacy to contribute to a better understanding of the broader framework of foreign-domestic policy. This theoretical and practical exploration of Vietnam's PD in cases of cultural diplomacy, South China Sea diplomacy and online activism situates it in the general academic and theoretical discussion on soft power. Key variables to the conceptualisation and conduct of Vietnam's PD, namely national interest, national identity and changing information technologies, especially the Internet and social media, are also thoroughly investigated. With crosscutting themes ranging from politics, international relations to communication studies, it will appeal to students and scholars of identity politics, populism and nationalism"--

"This book examines environmental issues through the lens of security studies and presents a comprehensive analysis of Indian policy in dealing with threats posed by climate change. This volume, - Puts forward theoretical base for securitization of environmental issues, incorporating different schools of thought; - Presents a survey of global environmental politics in general and the effects of climate change and its consequences for India's national security in particular; - Examines the politics involved in India's environmental policy at both the domestic and international level; - Outlines key policy takeaways and possibilities for action that can help contain the threat of environmental change. A comprehensive guide to a new and emerging dimension in Indian security policy, this book will be essential reading for students and researchers of international relations, security studies, especially non-traditional security, public policy, especially environmental policy, and area studies"--

Tang and Wijaya present a range of new and established scholarly voices, including local activists directly involved in developments in Southeast Asia. This groundbreaking collection presents the current state of play and longstanding LGBTQ+ debates in this often-overlooked region of Asia. The diversity of both the subject and the region is reflected in the broad scope of topics addressed, from the impact of Japanese queer popular culture on queer Filipinos, to the politics of public toilets in Singapore, and the impact of digital governance on queer communities across ASEAN. Taken in combination, these investigations not only highlight the operations of queer politics in Southeast Asia, but also present a concrete basis to reflect on queer knowledge production in the region. A vital resource for students and scholars of gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia, or any Queer or LGBTQ+ studies looking beyond the West.--

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Thucydides on Thucydides Trap: A Reading with the Emphasis of Middle Powers and its Application in the East Asian Context -- Chapter 3. Roles of Middle Power in East Asia: The Perspective of Network Theories of World Politics -- Chapter 4. Emerging Powers and a Middle Power: U.S.-China Competition and South Korea in Cyberspace -- Chapter 5. The Dilemma of South Korea as a Middle Power With Regards to the Conflicts Between the United States and China in the South China Sea -- Chapter 6. The Inter-network Politics of Cyber Security and Middle Power Diplomacy: A Korean Perspective -- Chapter 7. Power Shift, Power Diffusion, and Middle Power Diplomacy: MIKTA and Changes in Global Governance -- Chapter 8. Unpacking the Domestic Political Foundation of Middle Powers: Ups and Downs in South Korea's Middle Power Diplomacy toward China.

"This book offers a fresh analysis of third wave popular protests in Africa, shedding light on the complex dynamics between political change and continuity in contemporary Africa. The book argues that protests are simultaneously products and generators of change in that they are triggered by micro-and-macrosocial changes, but they also have the capacity to transform the nature of politics. By examining the triggers, actors, political opportunities, resources and framing strategies, the contributors shed light onto tangible (e.g. policy implementation, liberal reforms, political alternation) and intangible (e.g. perceptions, imagination, awareness) forms of change elicited by protests. It reveals the relevant role of African protests as engines of democracy, accountability and collective knowledge. Bringing popular protests in authoritarian and democratic settings into discussion, this book will be of interest to scholars of African politics, democracy and protest movements"--

What transformative effects does a multimillion-dollar industry have on those who work within it? The Industrial Ephemeral presents the untold stories of the people, politics, and production chains behind architecture, real estate, and construction in areas surrounding New Delhi, India. The personal histories of those in India's large laboring classes are brought to life as Namita Vijay Dharia discusses the aggressive environmental and ecological metamorphosis of the region in the twenty-first century. Urban planning and architecture are messy processes that intertwine migratory pathways, corruption politics, labor struggle, ecological transformations, and technological development. Rampant construction activity produces an atmosphere of ephemerality in urban regions, creating an aesthetic condition that supports industrial political economy. Dharia's brilliant analysis of the sensibilities and experiences of work lends visibility to the struggle of workers in an era of growing urban inequality.

During the interwar period, J.P. Morgan was the most important bank in the world and at the crossroads of US politics, international relations and finance. In J.P. Morgan & Co. and the Crisis of Capitalism, Martin Horn brings us the first in-depth history of how J.P. Morgan responded to the greatest crisis in the history of financial capitalism, shedding new light on the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the coming of World War II. Horn shows how J.P. Morgan & Co as a business responded to the 1929 Crash and the Depression, including its part in the New York Stock Exchange Crash, arguing that the Morgan partners misread the seriousness of the crash. He also offers new insights into the interactions of politics and finance, exploring J.P. Morgan's relationship with the Hoover administration and the bank's clash with Roosevelt over New Deal legislation.

This book investigates the role of religion in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Southern Africa. Building on a diverse range of methodologies and disciplinary approaches, the book reflects on how religion, politics and health have interfaced in Southern African contexts, when faced with the sudden public health emergency caused by the pandemic. Religious actors have played a key role on the frontline throughout the pandemic, sometimes posing roadblocks to public health messaging, but more often deploying their resources to help provide effective and timely responses. Drawing on case studies from African indigenous knowledge systems, Islam, Rastafari and various forms of Christianity, this book provides important reflections on the role of religion in crisis response. This book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of African Studies, Health, Politics and Religious Studies.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Rancière and Literature -- I Coordinates -- 1 Fictions of Time -- 2 Jacques Rancière in the Forest of Signs: Indiscipline, Figurality and Translation -- 3 Rancière and Tragedy -- 4 Rancière Lost: On John Milton and Aesthetics -- 5 'A New Mode of the Existence of Truth': Rancière and the Beginnings of Modernity 1780-1830 -- II Realisms -- 6 The Novelist and Her Poor: Nineteenth-Century Character Dynamics -- 7 'Broiled in Hell-fire': Melville, Rancière and the Heresy of Literarity -- 8 Why Maggie Tulliver Had To Be Killed -- 9 The Meaning in the Detail: Literature and the Detritus of the Nineteenth Century in Jacques Rancière and Walter Benjamin -- III Contemporaneities -- 10 Ineluctable Modality of the Sensible: Poverty and Form in Ulysses -- 11 The Politics of Realism in Rancière and Houellebecq -- 12 Literature, Politics and Action -- Index

"This book explores how Vietnam's leadership conceptualises and conducts public diplomacy (PD) and offers a comparative analysis with regional powers. Drawing on social constructivism as its theoretical framework it investigates the rationale behind an authoritarian regime's implementation of public diplomacy to contribute to a better understanding of the broader framework of foreign-domestic policy. This theoretical and practical exploration of Vietnam's PD in cases of cultural diplomacy, South China Sea diplomacy and online activism situates it in the general academic and theoretical discussion on soft power. Key variables to the conceptualisation and conduct of Vietnam's PD, namely national interest, national identity and changing information technologies, especially the Internet and social media, are also thoroughly investigated. With crosscutting themes ranging from politics, international relations to communication studies, it will appeal to students and scholars of identity politics, populism and nationalism"--

This book examines environmental issues through the lens of security studies and presents a comprehensive analysis of Indian policy in dealing with threats posed by climate change. This book: Puts forward theoretical base for securitization of environmental issues, incorporating different schools of thought; Presents a survey of global environmental politics in general and the effects of climate change and its consequences for India's national security in particular; Examines the politics involved in India's environmental policy at both the domestic and international levels; Outlines key policy takeaways and possibilities for action that can help contain the threat of environmental change. A comprehensive guide to a new and emerging dimension in Indian security policy, this book will be essential reading for students and researchers of international relations, security studies, especially non-traditional security, public policy, especially environmental policy; and area studies.