Transnational Renaissance and Local Power Struggles, 1920s to 1940s

2010 ◽  
pp. 229-262
Keyword(s):  
Local Power ◽  
Power Struggles

Wardship

2021 ◽  
pp. 153-198
Author(s):  
Benedict Wiedemann
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
James I

In the first decades of the thirteenth century, Popes Innocent III and Honorius III found themselves bound to support the succession of three young kings—Henry III of England, James I of Aragon, and Frederick II of Sicily. Although a supposed feudal right of wardship has often been supposed to have motivated the popes, actually, papal letters changed and altered their justifications for papal solicitude depending on the circumstances of the time. In practice, papal involvement in these royal minorities was reactive: the pope replied to petitions he received. Consequently, papal mandates and instructions were often variable and even contradictory. Papal instructions—rather than being a medium for a centralized papal will to be expressed—were more often the means through which local power struggles were fought.

Partisan to Sovereign

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 140-187
Author(s):  
Kevin Li
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Local Power ◽  
World War ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Political Force ◽  
Indochina War

The decade following the end of World War II saw the rise of the Bình Xuyên as a formidable military and political force. How did the Bình Xuyên emerge as local sovereigns? Eschewing the predominant “criminal” framework that has dominated our understanding of the group’s ascent, this article shows that competition to court the Bình Xuyên between the southern DRV and the French-sponsored Vietnamese governments as well as power struggles within those same state entities strengthened the Bình Xuyên’s local power. This pattern of interstate and intrastate competition in the early years of the First Indochina War laid the foundation for the group’s contentious relationship with its nominal Franco-Vietnamese patrons after its ralliement in 1948.

5. The past is in the present

2018 ◽  
pp. 104-126
Author(s):  
James R. Rush
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
The Past ◽  
New States

What remains today of Southeast Asia’s former kingdoms and colonies and its first-draft nations? “The past is in the present” suggests the answer is quite a lot. The extraordinary heterogeneity of Southeast Asia has not changed. Beneath the skin of the region’s national identities, thousands of separate ethnicities and languages and dialects remain, playing a role in local power struggles and sometimes in national ones. The impressive survival of the new states since independence, and their formal incorporation into a web of international organizations, suggest that Southeast Asia’s nations are here to stay. And yet, Southeast Asia remains rife with conflict. Often, the sleeping mandalas provide an explanation.

scholarly journals Inspecting the ‘extraordinary drain’: emigration and the urban experience in Merthyr Tydfil in the 1860s

Urban History ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-113
Author(s):  
BILL JONES
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
Civic Consciousness

In the 1860s mass emigration from Merthyr Tydfil made a major impact on the town's fortunes and developing public sphere. The ‘extraordinary drain’ occasioned much concern and comment and reconfigured ongoing debates about Merthyr's contemporary condition and future survival. In turn, local power struggles, notions of the town's interests and emerging civic consciousness influenced interpretations of the nature, causes and meanings of the outflow. Emigration and the ‘urban’ thus interacted tellingly to help shape contemporary mentalities.

Working the Revolution: Plantation Laborers and the People's Militia in North Sumatra

1988 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Laura Stoler
Keyword(s):  
Political Engagement ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Ethnic Conflicts ◽  
National Liberation ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
North Sumatra

Nationalist struggles are invariably civil as well as anticolonial wars. The processes of popular politicization are shaped as much by internal contests as by mobilized sentiments against foreign rule. Political engagement by the rural poor is typically influenced by local power struggles, ethnic conflicts, and class tensions that may deflect the poor's stakes in and concern for national liberation. To discover the quotidian contours of revolution, we must turn to these sorts of relationships and constraints. To understand the conditions that foster or discourage the active participation of subordinate groups in revolution, we must appreciate the local relations under which people labor as much as the political context in which they fight.

Drinking, Rumour, and Ethnicity in Jimma, Ethiopia

Africa ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Mains
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Political Behaviour ◽  
Drinking Habits ◽  
Ethnic Federalism ◽  
Religion And Nationalism ◽  
And Coping

AbstractThis paper is an investigation of the relationship between identity, politics, and rumours in Jimma, Ethiopia. The introduction of ethnic federalism in Ethiopia after the fall of the Marxist Derg regime in 1991 has been the topic of a significant amount of academic discussion, but little attention has been given to the day-to-day experience of this change. Consequently, post-1991 Ethiopian politics have been viewed primarily in terms of ethnic power struggles. An analysis of rumours that are circulated through casual conversation enables a better understanding of popular reactions to ethnic federalism. In particular, rumours regarding the drinking habits of Oromo Muslims and the political behaviour of Protestants reveal that ethnicity is closely intertwined with religion and nationalism. This analysis also demonstrates how a particularly Ethiopian form of discourse functions as a means both of resisting and coping with loss of political power and economic decline. Finally, it explores how international news media coverage of Christian–Muslim conflict and anxieties about globalisation are interrelated with local power struggles. In this paper, rumours are treated as a discourse that provides a window into the worldview of the speaker in order to explore how individuals negotiate political change and construct difference at the everyday level.

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