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This article focuses on an incident, a series of events in the political life of an English city. The case in question deals with a proposal to demolish over 50 houses in the Grand Union Housing Action Area in Leicester, in 1983. The demolition plan represented a desire on the part of officers and councillors of the City Council to increase the rate of replacement of the housing stock and to break away from a policy which relied almost exclusively on improvement and repair. The plan met considerable resistance from local residents, who were predominantly Asian owner-occupiers. It split the local Labour party and was eventually abandoned.
Having described the case the paper seeks to extract from it a number of general political relationships and policy considerations. The technique of using a study of the actions of individuals and groups within a particular situation to exhibit the nature of the broader social or political structure has been widely and successfully used in social anthropology (Gluckman, 1940; Epstein, 1967). While obviously limited by its particular focus, it provides a convenient and interesting way of raising important issues and opening up areas of debate.

Collection of four articles, introduced by S. Abeyasekere, on gender, politics, state and class in Southeast Asia, on the question why gender has not been seen to matter by political science in the region, the non-incorporation of gender into the teaching of Chinese politics, marginalisation of the increasingly sophisticated research on gender issues in China, failure to consider them in mainstream Japanese politics, growing pauperisation of poor women in rural Bangladesh and poverty and women in rural India. (DÜI-Sen)