Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics
Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics

Author: Steffen Bo Jensen

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2022-05-15

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1501762788

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Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics explores the notoriously brutal Philippine war on drugs from below. Steffen Bo Jensen and Karl Hapal examine how the war on drugs folded itself into communal and intimate spheres in one Manila neighborhood, Bagong Silang. Police killings have been regular occurrences since the birth of Bagong Silang. Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics shows that although the drug war was introduced from the outside, it fit into and perpetuated already existing gendered and generational structures. In Bagong Silang, the war on drugs implicated local structures of authority, including a justice system that had always been deeply integrated into communal relations. The ways in which the war on drugs transformed these intimate relations between the state and its citizens, and between neighbors, may turn out to be the most lasting impact of Duterte's infamously violent policies.

Communal Luxury
Communal Luxury

Author: Kristin Ross

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2016-11-22

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1784780545

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Reclaiming the legacy of the Paris Commune for the twenty-first century Kristin Ross’s highly acclaimed work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the reclamation of public space. Today’s concerns—internationalism, education, the future of labor, the status of art, and ecological theory and practice—frame and inform her carefully researched restaging of the words and actions of individual Communards. This original analysis of an event and its centrifugal effects brings to life the workers in Paris who became revolutionaries, the significance they attributed to their struggle, and the elaboration and continuation of their thought in the encounters that transpired between the insurrection’s survivors and supporters like Marx, Kropotkin, and William Morris. The Paris Commune was a laboratory of political invention, important simply and above all for, as Marx reminds us, its own “working existence.” Communal Luxury allows readers to revisit the intricate workings of an extraordinary experiment.

Communal Politics
Communal Politics

Author: Ram Puniyani

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited

Published: 2003-04-25

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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This lucid and absorbing book explores many facets of communalism and its growing threat to the social fabric of the nation. Ram Puniyani argues that one of the main reasons for the ascendancy of communal politics is the misconceptions and distortions spread by those bent upon constructing an identity based on suspicion and hatred. These misconceptions (or myths as the author calls them) are drawn from different arenas such as history and culture and are built upon a partial projection of events and `facts`combined with a skewed assertion of norms and practices of the `other` community. A mountain of hatred, says the author, is then built upon these totally selective `facts` which misinform and mould common perceptions. Overall, this fascinating book dispels, in a novel and logical manner, many distortions which have been responsible for arousing communal passions and which have created an external or `enemy` image of religious minorities and the socially disadvantaged.

The Price of a Vote in the Middle East
The Price of a Vote in the Middle East

Author: Daniel Corstange

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-09

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1107106672

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Some ethnic communities receive generous material rewards for their political support, whilst others only receive very modest payoffs.

Resisting Colonialism and Communal Politics
Resisting Colonialism and Communal Politics

Author: Rizwan Qaiser

Publisher:

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9788173049033

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Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1888-1958), has largely remained less explored as a political leader in the history of Indias struggle for independence. Two reasons seem quite plausible for this; one, historians have ignored the claims and contributions of those, generally described as nationalist Muslims in view of Indias Partition as they focused more on the politics and claims of the Muslim League; the second would be lack of knowledge of Urdu, in which, Azad has left behind a considerable corpus of evidence. The combination of the two has resulted in near silence of historians on political life of Azad, honourable exceptions notwithstanding. Such neglect and ignorance about the man and his times has left a void in our knowledge not only about Maulana Azad but the entire range of Muslim political opinion aligned with the cause of Indian nationalism and freedom movement. This volume provides a much needed and timely corrective. With the help of extensive but hitherto unexplored primary sources the author has been able to argue that Azads politics was continuously evolving while he remained steadfast towards composite Indian nationalism and resistant to communal politics. This volume is invaluable for scholars of Indian nationalism and Modern Indian History.

Participation in America
Participation in America

Author: Sidney Verba

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1987-01-16

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 0226852962

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Participation in America represents the largest study ever conducted of the ways in which citizens participate in American political life. Sidney Verba and Norman H. Nie addresses the question of who participates in the American democratic process, how, and with what effects. They distinguish four kinds of political participation: voting, campaigning, communal activity, and interaction with a public official to achieve a personal goal. Using a national sample survey and interviews with leaders in 64 communities, the authors investigate the correlation between socioeconomic status and political participation. Recipient of the Kammerer Award (1972), Participation in America provides fundamental information about the nature of American democracy.

Gujarat, Cradle and Harbinger of Identity Politi - India′s Injurious Frame of Communalism
Gujarat, Cradle and Harbinger of Identity Politi - India′s Injurious Frame of Communalism

Author: Ghanshyam Shah

Publisher:

Published: 2022-02-28

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9788195055944

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This book is a collection of essays written over the last five decades to document events related to the communal politics that have flourished in Gujarat. It features chapters on the historical aspects of communalism and the growth of the BJP in Gujarat, particularly focusing on its electoral politics.

Defense Legislation and Communal Politics
Defense Legislation and Communal Politics

Author: Kenneth W. Grundy

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13:

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In many ways the defense posture of a state (which may, of course, be aggressive) stands as hard evidence of its ruling elite's self-image and perception of its territorial mission. As a component of foreign policy, defense policy may also be viewed as instrumental to domestic configurations of power. Thus it is the purpose of this paper to examine various features of South African defense legislation as they have evolved since 1912. It will also discuss them in the context of the gradual emergence of a relatively united white "nation" out of the dichotomy of the Afrikaner volk and English-speakers loyal to the British crown, the two components of the embryonic white polity when the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910. (From the introduction)

Hasidism and Politics
Hasidism and Politics

Author: Marcin Wodziński

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2013-03-31

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1786948273

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This analysis of the political relations between the Kingdom of Poland and the hasidic movement shows that by creating advantageous socio-political conditions the government actually accelerated the growth of the movement, to the extent that unique features of Polish hasidism can be attributed to the impact of government policy. The study also demonstrates the unusually modern character of hasidic political activity, and charts its distinctive path of development in the Kingdom of Poland into ‘anti-modernist modernity’.