{"product_id":"competing-power-landscapes-of-migration-violence-and-the-state-9781785339929","title":"Competing Power: Landscapes of Migration,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tDrawing from ethnographic material based on long-term research, this volume considers competing forms of power at micro- and macro-levels in Guyana, where the local is marked by extensive migration, corruption, and differing levels of violence. It shows how the local is occupied and re-occupied by various powerful and powerless people and entities (“big ones” and “small ones”), and how it becomes the site of intense power negotiations in relation to external ideas of empowerment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This book looks at the phenomenon of Guyanese migration with elegance and sensibility, bringing to light the intricate relationship between intimate affects and broader socio-economic issues. \u003c\/em\u003eCompeting Power\u003cem\u003e is timely, well-written, and engaging.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Federica Guglielmo\u003c\/strong\u003e, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This is a highly original study… The reader learns about individual and group, formal and informal, and regular and innovative means of dealing with power, often never explored and exposed in such compelling detail.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Judith Okely\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Oxford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Competing Power: Landscapes of Violence, Migration and the State\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Amidst Illegality and Violence: Flight and the State\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Illegality and Big Ones: Disengaging Structural Violence\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Local Others: Residents, Bandits, Migrants\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Local Lives, Global Selves: New Local Imaginaries and ‘Go-and-Come’\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Re-presencing the Local\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Co-occupying Public Power: Challenges, Abuse and Structural Violence\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Materializing a Strange-Familiar Local: Individuals, Migrants’ Experiences and Strategies of Governance\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e In and Out of the Local: Blame-Sharing, Faulty Persons and the State\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConcluding Reflections\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tGlossary\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042413609303,"sku":"9781785339929","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785339929.jpg?v=1750954070","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/competing-power-landscapes-of-migration-violence-and-the-state-9781785339929","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}