Yael Berda (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How do the legacies of colonial bureaucracy continue to shape political life after empire? Tracing the colonial and racialized practices of population classification and restriction of mobility, this book examines how mundane and routine bureaucratic practices shape political life in Israel/Palestine, India and Cyprus.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 228mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781009054393
• ISBN-10: 1009054392
• Artikelnr.: 70206161

Autorenporträt

Yael Berda is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Hebrew University and a non-resident fellow with the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy school of Government. She is the author of Living Emergency: Israel's Permit Regime in the West Bank (2017) and The Bureaucracy of the Occupation (2012). Berda has worked as a practicing lawyer specializing in administrative, constitutional, and International law in Israel/Palestine.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the spectacle of independence and the specter of bureaucracy;
Part I. Hybrid Bureaucracy: How Race and Emergency Shaped the Organization
of Colonial Rule: 1. The effective disorder of hybrid bureaucracy; Part II.
The Axis of Suspicion: Classifications of Identity and Mobility in Crises:
2. Forms of suspicion: mobility as threat, census as battleground; 3. The
Bureaucratic toolkit of emergency; Part III. Administrative Memory and the
Legacies of Emergency: 4. Loyalty and Suspicion: making the Civil Service
after Independence; 5. How hybrid bureaucracy and permit regimes Made
Citizenship; Conclusion: the file and the checkpoint - colonial bureaucracy
and the making of contemporary citizenship.