Ruling the margins : colonial power and administrative rule in the past and present / Prem Kumar Rajaram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rajaram, Prem Kumar, author.

Series:

Interventions (Routledge (Firm))

Interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonies--Administration--History.

Colonies.

Bureaucracy--History.

Bureaucracy.

Power (Social sciences)--History.

Power (Social sciences).

History.

Citizenship--History.

Citizenship.

Colonies--Administration.

Southern Hemisphere--Social conditions.

Southern Hemisphere.

Social conditions.

Southern Hemisphere--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xii, 164 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

"Administrative rule is a type of rule centered on devising and implementing regulations governing how we live and how we conduct ourselves economically and politically, and sometimes culturally. The principle feature of this type of rule is the important question about how things should be arranged and for what purpose becomes a bureaucratic matter. Histories of the global south are rarely used to explain contemporary political structures or phenomena. This book uses histories of colonial power and colonial state-making to shed light on administrative government as a form of rule. Prem Kumar Rajaram eloquently presents how administrative power is a social process and the authority and terms of rule derived are tenuous, dependent on producing unitary meaning and direction to diverse political, social and economic relationships and practices"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Ruling the Margins

Class and the Colonial City : The Production and Administration of Kuala Lumpur

Of Law and Land : Producing Peasants and Landlords in Bengal

Representing the Margins : Colonial Art and Photographs in the Service of Depoliticisation

Mapping Iraq : Publics, Experts, Politics

"The State Needs to Protect Itself" : Acts of Citizenship by Asylum-seekers in Hungary

Spaces of Hope : Rethinking the Purposes of Citizenship.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138803879

1138803871

OCLC:

881387723