ISBN:
9780203427057
,
020342705X
,
0415193885
,
0415193893
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 213 p)
,
ill
Edition:
2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
A.S.A. monographs 36
Parallel Title:
Print version Anthropology of Power : Empowerment and Disempowerment in Changing Structures
DDC:
303.3
Keywords:
Social change
;
Political participation
;
Power (Social sciences)
;
Marginality, Social
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book uses ethnographic analysis to examine the issues surrounding power and empowerment. It presents material drawn from across the world to explore how traditionally disempowered groups gain influence in multicultural settings
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Power in the postmodern era; Chapter 2 Empowering ambiguities; Chapter 3 The discursive space of schooling; Chapter 4 'Father did not answer that question'; Chapter 5 The reach of the postcolonial state; Chapter 6 The guardians of power; Chapter 7 The dialectics of negation and negotiation in the anthropology of mineral resource development in Papua New Guinea; Chapter 8 Land and re-empowerment; Chapter 9 Indigenisation as empowerment?; Chapter 10 Exploitation after Marx
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 11 Evading state controlChapter 12 Authority versus power; Chapter 13 Speaking truth to power?; Chapter 14 Machiavellian empowerment and disempowerment; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Power in the postmodern era; Chapter 2 Empowering ambiguities; Chapter 3 The discursive space of schooling; Chapter 4 'Father did not answer that question'; Chapter 5 The reach of the postcolonial state; Chapter 6 The guardians of power; Chapter 7 The dialectics of negation and negotiation in the anthropology of mineral resource development in Papua New Guinea; Chapter 8 Land and re-empowerment; Chapter 9 Indigenisation as empowerment?; Chapter 10 Exploitation after Marx
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 11 Evading state controlChapter 12 Authority versus power; Chapter 13 Speaking truth to power?; Chapter 14 Machiavellian empowerment and disempowerment; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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