Shedding light on administrative rule so prevalent in the Global North via an examination of its implementation in the Global South, Prem Kumar Rajaram expertly demonstrates that 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.
Shedding light on administrative rule so prevalent in the Global North via an examination of its implementation in the Global South, Prem Kumar Rajaram expertly demonstrates that 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.
Prem Kumar Rajaram is Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University, Hungary. In his research, Prem Kumar Rajaram is particularly interested in questions of marginality and depoliticisation. His research has focused on the government of asylum-seekers, particularly those in detention in Europe and Australia, and on colonial histories of state making. He is particularly interested in the limits of politics, looking at individuals and groups excluded from political participation and seeing what their exclusion says about the nature of the political.
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Introduction 1. Ruling the Margins 2. Class and the Colonial City: The Production and Administration of Kuala Lumpur 3. Of Law and Land: Producing Peasants and Landlords in Bengal 4. Representing the Margins: Colonial Art and Photographs in the Service of Depoliticisation 5. Mapping Iraq: Publics, Experts, Politics 6. "The State Needs to Protect Itself": Acts of Citizenship by Asylum-seekers in Hungary 7. Spaces of Hope: Rethinking the Purposes of Citizenship
Introduction 1. Ruling the Margins 2. Class and the Colonial City: The Production and Administration of Kuala Lumpur 3. Of Law and Land: Producing Peasants and Landlords in Bengal 4. Representing the Margins: Colonial Art and Photographs in the Service of Depoliticisation 5. Mapping Iraq: Publics, Experts, Politics 6. "The State Needs to Protect Itself": Acts of Citizenship by Asylum-seekers in Hungary 7. Spaces of Hope: Rethinking the Purposes of Citizenship
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