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Book SynopsisIn the Shadow of Good Governance traces the implementation of the good governance agenda in Malawi from the loan documents signed by the representatives of the government and the Bretton Woods institutions to the individual experiences of civil servants who responded in unforeseen ways to the reform measures. Ethnographic evidence gathered in government offices, neighbourhoods and the private homes of civil servants living in Malawi’s urban and peri-urban areas undermines the common perception of a disconnect between state institutions and society in Africa. Instead, the book presents a comprehensive analysis of civil servants’ attempts to negotiate the effects of civil service reform and economic crisis at the turn of the 21st century.Trade ReviewThe anthropology of the postcolonial state takes a major step forward with Gerhard Anders' outstanding study. His ethnographic insights into the planning, implementation and manipulation of the civil service reform in Malawi give food for thought well beyond the specific case he writes about. No other study of the 1990s good governance agenda in Africa has accomplished Anders' nuanced account of the lived experience among civil servants caught up in the throes of change. This is a landmark study that challenges facile generalizations about corruption and the dysfunctional state in Africa. Harri Englund, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements vii Glossary and abbreviations ix Map of Malawi x 1 INTRODUCTION: UNPACKING GOOD GOVERNANCE 1 Civil servants as implementers and “target population” 1 The “dysfunctional” African state 3 Good governance as technology 5 Field sites 8 Studying up, follow the policy 9 Basic information about the civil service 11 Outline 14 2 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 15 Banda’s rule and the “New Malawi” 16 The results of two decades of structural adjustment 19 The civil service – from localisation to good governance 24 3 CONSTRUCTING COUNTRY OWNERSHIP 28 Introduction 28 The emergence of a concept 30 Conditionality and country ownership 34 The normativity of numbers 40 The discovery of the “C word” 42 Conclusions 47 4 THE IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS 49 Deconstructing policy implementation 49 Retrenchment of employees made redundant 51 The introduction of new housing allowances 55 Increasing fragmentation of the civil service 60 Conclusions 68 5 ERODING SALARIES AND DOING BUSINESS 70 The African entrepreneurial spirit 70 The meaning of having a job in the civil service 73 “How to make ends meet” 83 Winners and losers of economic liberalisation 89 Conclusions 97 vi 6 “DISTANCE SAVES ME” 99 Introduction 99 Kubwerera kumudzi 101 Education and social stratification 110 The importance of associations 111 The nature of kinship duties 115 Conclusions 120 7 THE DEMOCRATISATION OF APPROPRIATION 122 Introduction 122 “Bad politics” 124 The office mores – a parallel social and moral order 130 A “primoridial public sphere”or a patchwork of moralities? 135 Conclusions 139 8 CONCLUSIONS: THE STATE IN SOCIETY 141 The paradoxical policies of the World Bank and the IMF 142 A note on theorising the postcolonial state 148 References 151 Index 163

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Book SynopsisOrder and Compromise questions the historicity of government practices in Turkey from the late Ottoman Empire up to the present day. It explores how institutions at work are being framed by constant interactions with non-institutional characters from various social realms. This volume thus approaches the state-society continuum as a complex and shifting system of positions. Inasmuch as they order and ordain, state authorities leave room for compromise, something which has hitherto been little studied in concrete terms. By combining in-depth case studies with an interdisciplinary conceptual framework, this collection helps apprehend the morphology and dynamics of public action and state-society relations in Turkey. Contributors are: Marc Aymes, Olivier Bouquet, Nicolas Camelio, Nathalie Clayer, Anouck Gabriela Corte-Real Pinto, Berna Ekal, Benoît Fliche, Muriel Girard, Benjamin Gourisse, Sümbül Kaya, Noémi Lévy Aksu, Élise Massicard, Jean-François Pérouse, Clémence Scalbert Yücel, Emmanuel Szurek and Claire Visier.Trade Review“This book is not only a substantial contribution to the study of the Turkish State in particular, but also a valuable volume for State studies in general.” Dilek Yankaya in ERIS Vol. 5, Issue 2/2018, 66–70 https://budrich-journals.de/index.php/eris/article/view/32807Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures List of Abbreviations List of Contributors Introductory Note 1. Order and Compromise: The Concrete Realities of Public Action in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, Benjamin Gourisse 2. Defective Agency, Marc Aymes 3. Is it Time to Stop Speaking about Ottoman Modernisation?, Olivier Bouquet 4. The Linguist and the Politician: The Türk Dil Kurumu and the Field of Power in the 1930-40s, Emmanuel Szurek 5. An Imposed or a Negotiated Laiklik? The Administration of the Teaching of Islam in Single-Party Turkey, Nathalie Clayer 6. “The Military Seize the Law”: The Drafting of the 1961 Constitution, Nicolas Camelio 7. Institutional Cooperation and Substitution: the Ottoman Police and Justice System at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Noémi Lévy Aksu 8. The State without the Public: Some Conjectures about the Administration for Collective Housing (TOKİ), Jean-François Pérouse 9. Heritage as a Category of Public Policy in the Southeastern Anatolia Region, Muriel Girard, Clémence Scalbert Yücel 10. European Policies to Support “Civil Society”: Embodying a Form of Public Action, Claire Visier 11. The Incomplete Civil Servant? The Figure of the Neighbourhood Headman (Muhtar), Élise Massicard 12. Military Domination by Donations, Anouck Gabriela Corte-Real Pinto 13. Women’s Shelters as State Institutions, Berna Ekal 14. The Socialisation of Those Called up for “Training in the Love of the Motherland” as Part of Military Service in Turkey, Sümbül Kaya 15. Officialdom and the Woman Who Was 'Meant to Be Dead': The Ethnography of an Exfoliation, Benoît Fliche 16. Deceptive Agency, Marc Aymes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Making of the African Road offers an account of the long-distance road in Africa. Being a latecomer to automobility and far from saturated mass mobility, the African road continues to be open for diverging interpretations and creative appropriations. The road regime on the continent is thus still under construction, and it is made in more than one sense: physically, socially, politically, morally and cosmologically. The contributions to this volume provide first-hand anthropological insights into the infrastructural, economic, historical as well as experiential dimensions of the emerging orders of the African road. Contributors are: Kurt Beck, Amiel Bize, Michael Bürge, Luca Ciabarri, Gabriel Klaeger, Mark Lamont, Tilman Musch, Michael Stasik, Rami Wadelnour.Trade Review'Si des études éparses avaient déjà porté sur les routes en tant que constructions physiques autant que sociales, aucune entreprise n’avait jusqu’ici tenté de produire un propos plus systématique sur cet objet en Afrique [...] Plusieurs contributions du recueil peuvent être lues comme des descriptions extrêmement fines de pratiques et de représentations constitutives des cultures professionnelles des métiers de la route'. - Sidy Cissokho, Centre d’études africaines de l’Université d’Édimbourg (CAS), dans: Politique africaine n° 147 (Octobre 2017), p.159-170 'The making of the African road offers superb local and comparative insights, decisively placing African roads into the global history and ethnography of modernity. The volume should be of interest well beyond Africanist circles, to all social scientists and experts interested in matters of road infrastructure.' - Florin Faje, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania, in: Social Anthropology 26.4 (2018), pp. 577-578 'The chapters contribute rich ethnographic descriptions that highlight the diversity of roads in contemporary Africa, ranging from congested urban thoroughfares to desert roads composed of little more than tracks across the sand. […] the authors engage most directly with scholarship on Western mobility, the anthropology of roads, and science and technology studies, making the book particularly relevant to scholars interested in how technology and culture shape each other.' - Rosa E. Ficek, University of Puerto Rico, in: Transfers 8.3 (2018), pp. 135-136Table of ContentsList of figures List of maps List of contributors Acknowledgments 1 An Introduction to the African Road Kurt Beck, Gabriel Klaeger and Michael Stasik 2 Roadside Involution, Or How Many People Do You Need to Run a Lorry Park? Michael Stasik 3 Jam-Space and Jam-Time: Traffic in Nairobi Amiel Bize 4 Stories of the Road: Perceptions of Power, Progress and Perils on the Accra-Kumasi road, Ghana Gabriel Klaeger 5 Biographies of Roads, Biographies of Nations: History, Territory and the Road Effect in Post-Conflict Somaliland Luca Ciabarri 6 Cosmological Work at the Crossroads: Commercial Motorbike Riders in Makeni, Sierra Leone Michael Bürge 7 Ruin, Or Repair? Infrastructural Sociality and an Economy of Disappearances along a Rural Road in Kenya Mark Lamont 8 Negotiating Desert Routes: Travelling Practices on the Forty Days Road Rami Wadelnour 9 Teda Drivers on the Road between Agadez and Assheggur: Taking over an Ancient Tuereg Caravan Route Tilman Musch 10 Technological Dramas on the Road: The ‘Artery of the North Highway’ in the Sudan Kurt Beck Index  

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Book SynopsisThe international community has come together to pursue certain fundamental, common goals over the coming period to 2030 to make progress toward ending poverty and hunger, improving social and economic well-being, preserving the environment and combating climate change, and maintaining peace. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been agreed to by states, which have in turn adopted national targets and action plans. This volume studies the governance and implementation of these goals in Southeast Asia, in particular the difficulties in the shift from the international to the national, the multi-level challenges of implementation, and the involvement of stakeholders, civil society, and citizens in the process. Contributors to this volume are scholars from across Southeast Asia who research these issues in developing (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar), middle-income (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam), and developed countries (Brunei, Singapore) in the region. The perspectives on governance and the SDGs emerge from the fields of political science, international relations, geography, economics, law, health, and the natural sciences.Trade Review"This book is useful in providing a complete and up-to-date overview of the 17 SDGs in the context of Southeast Asia and ASEAN. […] I have no hesitation in recommending this book to postgraduate students, researchers, and policymakers, as well as to the general reader seeking a detailed and proper perspective on the issue." – Syed Abdul Rehman Khan, Xuzhou University of TechnologyTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables About the Editors About the Authors Part 1: Institutions and Governance for the Sustainable Development Goals 1 Introduction: Sustainable Development Goals in Southeast Asia and ASEAN  Ronald Holzhacker 2 Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals: Assessing Indonesia’s Compliance towards the Global Goals  Dafri Agussalim, Ahmad Rizky M. Umar, Karina Larasati and Dio H. Tobing 3 Partnerships for Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Lao PDR  Phanthanousone Khennavong Part 2: Accountability to Citizens and Human Rights to Ensure Progress toward the SDGs 4 Accountability Challenges to Sustainable Development Goals in Southeast Asia  Julio C. Teehankee 5 Human Rights and Sustainable Development Goals: the Philippines in the Postnational  Ulrich Karl Rotthoff Part 3: SDGs and Progress on the Social Agenda in Middle-Income and Developing Countries in Southeast Asia 6 Sustainable Development Goals and Capacity Building in Higher Education in Malaysia and ASEAN  Azirah Hashim and Aliyyah Nuha Faiqah Azman Firdaus 7 Healthcare System Reform and Governance for Sustainable Development under Indonesia’s Health Insurance (JKN) Policy  Laksono Trisnantoro Part 4: SDGs and the New Urban Agenda, Cities, and Transport 8 Urban Transformation in Indonesia, the SDGs, and Habitat III: Political Will, Capacity Building, and Knowledge Production  Bakti Setiawan 9 A Vision in Which Every Family Has Basic Shelter  Noor Hasharina Hassan and Gabriel Y. V. Yong 10 The Missing Link: Sustainable Mobility for Sustainable Cities and Communities  Wendy Tan Part 5: SDGs and the Environment, Clean Air and Water for All 11 Transboundary Haze, ASEAN, and the SDGs: Normative and Structural Considerations  Helena Varkkey 12 Emerging Spaces of Citizenship: Grassroots Communities and Water Governance in Indonesia  Maharani Hapsari Part 6: SDGs and the Economic Agenda for Inclusive Economic Growth and Decent Work for All 13 Economic Reform and Sustainable Development in Vietnam  Tran Dinh Lam 14 Legal Protection of Construction Workers and the Right to Safe Working Conditions: Lessons from Cambodia  Kimsan Soy 15 The Bumblebee Doctrine: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises as a Force for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Myanmar  Thuta Aung Part 7: SDGs, Agriculture, and Community Development through Partnerships 16 Bluewashing, Green Coffee, and the Sustainable Development Agenda in Southeast Asia  Amador IV Peleo and Titus C. Chen 17 Cooperation of Cooperatives: Partnership towards SDGs  Saikaew Thipakorn Index Index

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Book SynopsisChina has become a land of protests, though the Chinese state possesses considerable administrative capacity. In this volume, Manfred Elfstrom and Yao Li provide an overview of Chinese contentious politics. They dig deep into major forms of social conflict, explore structural explanations for why protest occurs in China, and describe the ways in which various organizations and framings of issues by citizens affect how protests play out. Shifting to where grassroots activism ultimately leads, Elfstrom and Li survey China’s coercive and conciliatory institutions for maintaining social control, document and explain patterns in the state’s handling of different types of resistance, and examine the social and political impact of unrest. This work not only contributes to a deeper understanding of contentious politics and governance in China, but also provides insights for studies of social movements and authoritarian politics in general.Table of ContentsContentious Politics in China: Causes, Dynamics, and Consequences  Manfred Elfström and Yao Li Abstract Keywords  1 The Broad Landscape of Chinese Protest  2 Economic Structural Explanations of Chinese Contention  3 Political Opportunity Explanations of Chinese Contention  4 Forms of Organization  5 Issue Framing  6 Empowerment and Weakness  7 Government Responses to Protests  8 Conclusion  References

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Book SynopsisThe study of taxation is fundamental for understanding the construction of Tibetan polities, the nature of their power – often with a marked religious component – and their relationships with their subjects, as well as the consequences of taxation for social stratification. This volume takes the analysis of taxation in Tibetan societies (both under the Ganden Phodrang and beyond it) in new directions, using hitherto unexploited Tibetan-language sources. It pursues the dual objective of advancing our understanding of the organisation of taxation from an institutional perspective and of highlighting the ways in which taxpayers themselves experienced and represented these fiscal systems. Contributors are Saadet Arslan, John Bray, Kalsang Norbu Gurung, Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy, Berthe Jansen, Diana Lange, Nancy E. Levine, Charles Ramble, Isabelle Riaboff, Peter Schwieger, Alice Travers, and Maria M. Turek.Table of ContentsContents Note on the Transliteration and Transcription of Tibetan Names and Terms List of Figures and Maps List of Tables Introduction 1 The Tax System in Central and Far East Tibet Towards the End of the Ganden Phodrang Reign: An Outline of Its Structure and Terminology  Peter Schwieger 2 A Perspective on the Ganden Phodrang’s Administration of Taxation in the 19th and 20th Centuries Based on Archival Sources  Kalsang Norbu Gurung 3 “When You Count, Everything Is There, and When Everything Is There, Everything Vanishes” A Criticism of Tax Collecting in Ngamring District (Rdzong) during the First Half of the 20th Century  Alice Travers 4 Traditional Taxation Systems in Western Tibet: A Comparative Perspective  Nancy E. Levine 5 Lam Yig—An Official Document Granting Travel Privileges in Tibet  Saadet Arslan 6 “My Karma Selected Me to Become A Ferryman”: The Role of Waterways and Watercraft in the Corvée Tax System in Pre-1959 Tibet  Diana Lange 7 Performing Tibetan Opera As Khral in the First Half of the 20th Century: In Principle a “Tax”, in Experience a Pervasive Obligation  Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy 8 A Preliminary Investigation Into Monk-Tax: The Concept of Grwa Khral/Btsun Khral/Ban Khral and Its Meanings  Berthe Jansen 9 Monastic Obligations, Hat Change and Lhasa Encroachment Taxation Rights Among Politico-Religious Shifts in the Kingdom of Nangchen  M. Maria Turek 10 “By Ancient Custom and Engagements”: Trade, Taxes and Diplomacy in Ladakh and Western Tibet between the 17th and 20th Centuries  John Bray 11 Taxes and Corvées in the Manorial and Monastic Estates of Zangskar (Western Himalayas)  Isabelle Riaboff 12 The Fiscal Status of Buddh1ist and Bönpo Institutions in Mustang (Nepal): A Historical Overview  Charles Ramble Index

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