Understanding the Local Power Structure in Rural Bangladesh
Author: David Lewis
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9789158681156
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The Egalitarian Moment
Author: D. A. Low
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780521567657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of the unsuccessful attempts in Asia and Africa to create egalitarian rural societies.
Local Self-Governance and Varieties of Statehood
Author: Dieter Neubert
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-12-13
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 3031149963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe debate on governance originates in the OECD world. At the latest since the postcolonial debate, we know that we need to “test” our assumptions under radically different conditions. This book offers an extended perspective of local self-governance by examining cases from South Asia, Africa, and Latin America, together with a study of militias in the USA. The chapters present a wide variety of local actors who pursue different notions of order legitimized by local traditions based on hierarchy or deeply rooted communalism, Islamic theology, or grassroots democracy. Some local actors claim a state-like authority and challenge the territorial state. In such cases, there is no longer “a shadow hierarchy” but opposition to the state. Different violent actors fight for supremacy, and the state is just one actor among others. The empirical studies presented in this book show how different kinds of local self-governance are combined with varieties of statehood, and thus contribute to an understanding of the notion of governance in a fundamental sense that goes beyond the special case of the OECD world.
The Far East and Australasia 2003
Author: Europa Publications
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1724
ISBN-13: 9781857431339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique survey of each country in the region. It includes an extensive collection of facts, statistics, analysis and directory information in one accessible volume.
Hands Not Land
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Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
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Power, Property Rights, and Economic Development
Author: Mohammad Dulal Miah
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-11-19
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9811327637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a critical reassessment of theories of property rights, in response to conflicts and competition between different groups, and the state. It does so by taking an institutional political perspective to analyse the structures of property rights, with a focus on a series of case studies from Bangladesh. In doing so, the book highlights the importance of property rights for economic growth, why developing countries often fail to design property rights conducive for economic development, and the strategies required for designing an efficient structure of rights. Since property rights falls within the domain of Law and Economics, the book ventures to explain legal issues from an economic perspective, resulting in empirical analysis that comprises both legal and non-legal cases.
An Agrarian History of South Asia
Author: David Ludden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-17
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1316025365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1999, David Ludden's book offers a comprehensive historical framework for understanding the regional diversity of agrarian South Asia. Adopting a long-term view of history, it treats South Asia not as a single civilization territory, but rather as a patchwork of agrarian regions, each with their own social, cultural and political histories. The discussion begins during the first millennium, when farming communities displaced pastoral and tribal groups, and goes on to consider the development of territoriality from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Subsequent chapters consider the emergence of agrarian capitalism in village societies under the British, and demonstrate how economic development in contemporary South Asia continues to reflect the influence of agrarian localism. As a comparative synthesis of the literature on agrarian regimes in South Asia, the book promises to be a valuable resource for students of agrarian and regional history as well as of comparative world history.
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2016: Office of the Secretary; Natural Resources Conservation Service; Marketing and regulatory programs; Food and Drug Administration
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 1508
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Quiet Violence
Author: Betsy Hartmann
Publisher: Food First Books
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780935028164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKField study of living conditions in a village of Bangladesh - describes historical background to poverty, the agrarian structure and agricultural production; mentions landowner attitudes, rural youth, rural women and children; examines the role of Islamic religion, marriage, the rural area social classes (particularly peasant farmers and landless agricultural workers); covers land and production relations, agricultural marketing, violence, corruption, development aid, etc. Photographs and references.
Dispossession Without Development
Author: Michael Levien
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0190859156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2019 Global and Transnational Sociology Best Book Award, American Sociological Association Winner of the 2019 Political Economy of World System (PEWS) Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association Received Honorable Mention for the 2019 Asia/Transnational Book Award, American Sociological Association Since the mid-2000s, India has been beset by widespread farmer protests against land dispossession. Dispossession Without Development demonstrates that beneath these conflicts lay a profound shift in regimes of dispossession. While the postcolonial Indian state dispossessed land mostly for public-sector industry and infrastructure, since the 1990s state governments have become land brokers for private real estate capital. Using the case of a village in Rajasthan that was dispossessed for a private Special Economic Zone, the book ethnographically illustrates the exclusionary trajectory of capitalism driving dispossession in contemporary India. Taking us into the lives of diverse villagers in "Rajpura," the book meticulously documents the destruction of agricultural livelihoods, the marginalization of rural labor, the spatial uneveness of infrastructure provision, and the dramatic consequences of real estate speculation for social inequality and village politics. Illuminating the structural underpinnings of land struggles in contemporary India, this book will resonate in any place where "land grabs" have fueled conflict in recent years.
