Archaeological places: Negotiations between local communities, archaeologists and the state in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaya Menon ◽  
Supriya Varma
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Ritual Spaces ◽  
Critical Intervention

In South Asia, local communities most often live near or amidst archaeological places. Their lives are in many ways framed and structured by these places. At the same time, these places too are impacted by the communities that live nearby. Archaeological sites in India are being destroyed at a rapid pace, due to increasing population and development pressures. This story gets further complicated by legislative practices of preservation related to monuments and archaeological sites, which are solely in the hands of the state through its institutions. It is this very act of protection that sometimes leads to conflict between the institutions of the state and local communities. At the same time, several archaeological sites have also survived due to local interests because they have been transformed into ritual spaces or are considered as ancestral places. Additionally, monuments have been converted into heritage hotels and have become an important means of livelihood for the families that own them. Thus, for protection to succeed, the critical intervention and involvement of local communities living in close proximity to monuments and archaeological sites is fundamental. Is it then education that can enable the survival of archaeological places? School education has the scope of involving and alerting children to their environs, whether it is the natural environment or a built one, and this could be a long-term solution.

scholarly journals Seigneurial governance and the state in late medieval Guelders (14th–16th century)

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-59
Author(s):  
Jim van der Meulen
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Central Argument

AbstractThis article charts the long-term development of seigneurial governance within the principality of Guelders in the Low Countries. Proceeding from four quantitative cross-sections (c. 1325, 1475, 1540, 1570) of seigneurial lordships, the conclusion is that seigneurial governance remained stable in late medieval Guelders. The central argument is that this persistence of seigneurial governance was an effect of active collaboration between princely administrations, lords, and local communities. Together, the princely government and seigneuries of Guelders formed an integrated, yet polycentric, state. The article thereby challenges the narrative of progressive state centralisation that predominates in the historiography of pre-modern state formation.

scholarly journals Financial Inclusion of the Region: Analysis of the State and Ways of Ensuring

2019 ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
Andrii Matkovskyi ◽  
Vitaliia Skryl ◽  
Ruslana Shtanko
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Rural Population ◽  
The State ◽  
Current Level ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
The Media ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Urgent Action

Financial inclusion of the region is a means of making full use of the financial services industry's tools, which ultimately contributes to the long-term economic growth of the region, as it stimulates innovation, mobilizes savings and supports investment. The paper analyzes the current level of financial inclusion of the Poltava region. The study showed that the current level of financial inclusion of the Poltava region is low. Surveys of the respondents showed that there is a large disproportionate level of financial inclusion among urban and rural population. The rural population is limited in financial services. There is still a significant lack of confidence in financial institutions. All this slows down the processes of full involvement of the population in financial inclusion and creates a shadow sector. However, remediation is observed in urgent action by both the state and local authorities and financial institutions. Continuous information in the media and social networks in the future will be able to restore confidence in financial institutions and thus increase not only the level of financial inclusion, but also every inhabitant of the Poltava region.

scholarly journals Legal Security and Financial Security of Local Communities. Selected Issues

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Feret
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
State And Local Government ◽  
Local Government Level ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Legal Security ◽  
Financial Power

<p>The study has been devoted to showing the relationship between legal security and financial security at the local government level. To this end, firstly some consideration has been given to determining the meaning of the terms “security” and “financial security” from the point of view of the state and local government. In addition, it has been shown that financial security is inextricably linked to the financial power enjoyed by the state, specifically by the bodies acting in its name and on its behalf. The power resulting from this is the financial power of local government units, which is enjoyed by such units although to a limited extent. However, it has been found that even this scope of legal regulations limiting the possibilities of authoritative financial activities of local government bodies is of key importance from the security viewpoint of local communities.</p>

Caste, Class, and Gender on the Margins of the State

2018 ◽  
pp. 245-262
Author(s):  
Madhumita Biswal
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Class Bias ◽  
Dominant Theme ◽  
State And Local ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Health Programmes

Dichotomous view of state and local communities remains a dominant theme in the theorization of state. State often gets depicted to be mainly working on the basis of a rational principle as opposed to the irrationalities of the local communities. This chapter makes an attempt to understand how such claims about state takes an actual course while making available some of the basic needs like health services. It argues that gender and class bias remain inherent at the very structuring level of the health programmes. Further, the bureaucratic hierarchy of the state and the hierarchies of the local communities seem to converge on many occasions.

ASSESSING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GAPS BETWEEN THE STATE AND LOCAL JURISDICTIONS

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 263-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZHENGHONG TANG
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
The State ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Environmental Goals ◽  
Major Factors

State mandates and guidelines significantly influence local land use planning; however few studies have been conducted to empirically detect the gaps in sustainable environmental planning between the state and local jurisdictions. This paper analyses the California Governor's Environmental Goals and Policy Report (EGPR) and 116 local comprehensive land use plans to develop a set of measurable indicators to detect gaps in local planning efforts to incorporate state goals and policies. Descriptive results indicate that the local jurisdictions reached approximately half of the state's sustainable environmental planning goals. The major gaps existed in some region-wide, global-wide, long-term, cumulative, and strategically critical environmental elements. Regression results further highlight the major factors that significantly influenced local jurisdictions' environmental planning abilities. Six policy recommendations are provided to reduce these gaps.

scholarly journals Political Economy and the Australian Government’s CCTV Programme: An Exploration of State-Sponsored Street Cameras and the Cultivation of Consent and Business in Local Communities

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Anthony Carr
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Local Council ◽  
Security Technologies ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Commercial Opportunity

This article explores the political economy of Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) in Australia, providing new insights into the relationship between government policy and its economic implications. I have rationalised state-sponsored street cameras as a component in the cultivation of consent between the state and local communities; a mechanism for government to facilitate the flow of public funds to business through arrangements that are virtually unchecked and non-evidence based; a mechanism for government to facilitate profitable opportunities in and beyond the security technologies industry; and, a mechanism to normalise hegemonic social and political relations at the level of discourse. This article explores how government has assisted growth in the security industry in Australia. I draw on a case study about Kiama Municipal Council’s decision in 2014 to accept funding from the Abbott Government to install CCTV cameras through the Safer Streets Programme. This is despite historically low crime rates in Kiama and an inability to demonstrate broad support for the programme in the local community. This study reveals how politicians have cultivated support for CCTV at the local level and pressured councils to install these systems despite a lack of evidence they reduce, deter or prevent crime. Examined is how the footage captured on local council CCTV has been distributed and its meanings mediated by political and commercial groups. I argue that the politics of CCTV dissemination in Australia is entwined with the imperatives of electoral success and commercial opportunity—a coalescent relationship evident in the Safer Streets Programme. Furthermore, the efficacy of CCTV as an electoral tool in Australia is explained via the proposition that street cameras perform a central role in the discourses and political economy of the state.

Forgotten or neglected experiences with community action on alcohol

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 5-12
Author(s):  
Jacek Moskalewicz ◽  
Antoni Zielinski
Keyword(s):  
Community Action ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The State ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Alcohol Outlets ◽  
Alcohol Policies ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Proven Efficacy ◽  
State And Local ◽  
The One

The aim of this article is to trace the historical trade-offs between the State and local communities in shaping alcohol policies in Poland against the changes in more general political and economic backdrop. The article reviews relevant legislation and literature in the field since the 1920s and then discusses current legislation and policy documents, which apparently empower local alcohol action. It is argued that a shift from the State alcohol policies towards community-based initiatives is reinforced by the growing position of the market at the expense of the State powers. Public health approaches of proven efficacy are beyond the influence of local communities. They have no impact whatsoever on taxation. Availability control is rarely applied either as local preventive funds grow in proportion to the number of alcohol outlets. In this context, local alcohol policies tend to focus on school education on the one hand and on individual interventions in the field of family violence and severe addiction, on the other.

scholarly journals LEGAL REGULATION OF GOAL-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING AS AN ELEMENT OF STATE LONG-TERM PLANNING

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
pp. 39-44
Author(s):  
S. Knysh ◽  
◽  
Z. Knysh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Executive Agencies ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Village

The research is focused on specific features of legal regulation of goal-oriented programming as an element of the state long-term planning. It has been indicated that the state long-term planning consists in choosing the priorities of economic development and public administration, determining resources to achieve the goals, elaborating and implementing tasks and measures of socio-economic development. One of the elements of state long-term planning is the development of state goal-oriented programs. Legislative and doctrinal definitions of state goal-oriented programs have been analyzed. The state goal-oriented program should be defined as a set of interrelated scientifically sound tasks and measures of social, economic, scientific, technical, organizational nature aimed at obtaining positive results of the state and society’s development. The state programs determine resources for financing their implementation; they establish the tasks for the executors of specific activities. The legal principles for the development of state and local goal-oriented programs have been determined. It has been clarified that the central and local executive agencies, the National Bank of Ukraine and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine have the authorities to develop state goal-oriented programs. Such programs are approved by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine or the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Local goal-oriented programs are created by the village or city mayor and approved at the village or city council’s sessions. The authors have defined certain stages of the development and approval processes of socio-economic development programs, which include preparation of the concept of the goal-oriented program, coordination with various ministries, conducting scientific and technical, as well as other examinations, public discussions of the program. The authors have formulated propositions for amending the current legislation in regard to public participation in the development of state and local goal-oriented programs, namely: 1) members of the public should have the authorities to initiate the development of state and local programs; 2) public organizations should have the right to offer their own programs for the development of territorial communities or programs to address social and economic problems; 3) propositions of citizens expressed by them during the program’s public discussions must be taken into account in the draft of the relevant program.

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