Drawing 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.
Drawing 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.
Narmala Halstead is a Research Associate at the University of Sussex. Previously, she was a Reader in Anthropology at the University of East London (UEL) and also held a permanent lectureship at Cardiff University. Her research focuses on Guyana and Caribbean migrants and diaspora in New York, and currently she is working on digital personhood, rights, and debates in cities across three countries. She is the editor of the Journal of Legal Anthropology.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgements Introduction: Competing Power: Landscapes of Violence, Migration and the State Chapter 1. Amidst Illegality and Violence: Flight and the State Chapter 2. Illegality and Big Ones: Disengaging Structural Violence Chapter 3. Local Others: Residents, Bandits, Migrants Chapter 4. Local Lives, Global Selves: New Local Imaginaries and 'Go-and-Come' Chapter 5. Re-presencing the Local Chapter 6. Co-occupying Public Power: Challenges, Abuse and Structural Violence Chapter 7. Materializing a Strange-Familiar Local: Individuals, Migrants' Experiences and Strategies of Governance Chapter 8. In and Out of the Local: Blame-Sharing, Faulty Persons and the State Concluding Reflections Glossary Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Introduction: Competing Power: Landscapes of Violence, Migration and the State Chapter 1. Amidst Illegality and Violence: Flight and the State Chapter 2. Illegality and Big Ones: Disengaging Structural Violence Chapter 3. Local Others: Residents, Bandits, Migrants Chapter 4. Local Lives, Global Selves: New Local Imaginaries and 'Go-and-Come' Chapter 5. Re-presencing the Local Chapter 6. Co-occupying Public Power: Challenges, Abuse and Structural Violence Chapter 7. Materializing a Strange-Familiar Local: Individuals, Migrants' Experiences and Strategies of Governance Chapter 8. In and Out of the Local: Blame-Sharing, Faulty Persons and the State Concluding Reflections Glossary Bibliography Index
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