Ethnographic Research, Local Power Brokers and the Political Reorganization of Colonial Ewedome, British Mandated Territory, 1914-1930s

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-70
Author(s):  
Wilson K. Yayoh
Keyword(s):  
Local People ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Local Dynamics ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Counter Argument ◽  
Indirect Rule

Present-day scholars have critically examined the nature and dynamics of indirect rule in Africa and have found it to be riddled with contradictions and ambiguities. Colonial officers were often accused of imposing colonial structures on local people in the name of tradition. Native Authorities (NAs), for instance, were seen as colonial inventions that often lacked real legitimacy. This article, however, extends the counter argument that the colonial state was actually the product of complex local dynamics rather than a straightforward ‘imposition’. This article uses both primary and secondary sources to provide evidence which shows how ethnographic research shaped the British policy of amalgamation in colonial Ewedome and secondly adds to our knowledge on the role of local power brokers in the formulation of colonial policies in Africa.Keywords: Ethnography; Power Brokers; Colonial State; Intermediaries; mediation; legitimacy

scholarly journals (In)coherent subjects? The politics of conceptualising resistance in the UK asylum system

2021 ◽  
pp. 239965442110338
Author(s):  
Sarah M Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Sovereign Power ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
Grounding Resistance ◽  
Migration Control ◽  
The Uk

Many accounts of resistance within systems of migration control pivot upon a coherent migrant subject, one that is imbued with political agency and posited as oppositional to particular forms of sovereign power. Drawing upon ethnographic research into the role of creativity within the UK asylum system, I argue that grounding resistance with a stable, coherent and agentic subject, aligns with oppositional narratives (of power vs resistance), and thereby risks negating the entangled politics of the (in)coherence of subject formation, and how this can contain the potential to disrupt, disturb or interrupt the practices and premise of the UK asylum system. I suggest that charity groups and subjects should not be written out of narratives of resistance apriori because they engage with ‘the state’: firstly, because to argue that there is a particular form that resistance should take is to place limits around what counts as the political; and secondly, because to ‘remain oppositional’ is at odds with an (in)coherent subject. I show how accounts which highlight a messy and ambiguous subjectivity, could be bought into understandings of resistance. This is important because as academics, we too participate in the delineation of the political and what counts as resistance. In predetermining what subjects, and forms of political action count as resistance we risk denying recognition to those within this system.

Strangers in the Village? Colonial policing in rural Bengal, 1861 to 1892

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 1378-1404 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERIN M. GIULIANI
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Police Administration ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Rural Police ◽  
Coercive Function ◽  
Colonial Police ◽  
The Village

AbstractThe chief concern of this article is the organization and administration of rural policing in colonial Bengal during the last 40 years of the nineteenth century. It connects its design and implementation with the consolidation of India's colonial police force, while highlighting the ongoing negotiations made by the Bengal police in a wider colonial model. The article argues that the police administration of rural Bengal was shaped initially by the ordinary constraints of the colonial state which underpinned the design of the Indian police—namely its frugality and preference for collaborating with local intermediaries, a manifestation of salutary neglect. Yet, it highlights the role of Bengal's largely British police executive in renegotiating customs of governance and, ultimately, as an established model of policing in India. The article focuses, therefore, on ongoing and at times informal police reforms which were based upon notions contradictory to an official discourse about policing in India. This article thus contextualizes the development of rural police administration in Bengal in a strong tradition of police-led reform in the province. In so doing, the article redresses a traditional historiographical focus on the political origins and coercive function of the police, and problematizes current research which situates Indian policing within customs of British governance in the subcontinent.

Chiefdom

Focaal ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 2004 (43) ◽  
pp. 77-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Skalník
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Generic Term ◽  
Political Form ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Indirect Rule

This article addresses the question of the universality of chiefdom as a political form that displays surprising longevity as a viable alternative to the state. Data from research on Africa show that chiefdom is a suitable generic term for the political centralization, which comprises 'kingdoms'. A New Indirect Rule, based on a balance between the chiefdom-like structures and the post-colonial state, could be a truly democratic solution for the protracted crisis of modern statehood in areas where it was imposed on consesual communities. The chiefdom model should also be tested on data about face-to-face non-state politics in contemporary societies. The purpose of the article is to call for a new generation of research on politics liberated from the teleology of the state.

Constructivism, Pluralism, and Pedagogy From Below in India

2021 ◽  
pp. 110-126
Author(s):  
Wahid Ahmad Dar
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Formal Curriculum ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
Indian Schools ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Teaching Learning

The chapter argues for a synthesis of principles of constructivism with the political and legal dimensions of educational pluralism. This synthesis has been argued to give a determining and central position to pedagogies from below in the process of framing curriculum and organizing teaching learning activities in Indian schools. Constructivism and educational pluralism represent two voices which assert for relying on psychological principles and countering the dangers of political hegemony in educational landscape, respectively. They both talk about the importance of pedagogy from below as a helpful reality focused toolkit for undoing the effects of historical social inequity and breaking the hegemony of dominant class in the process of knowledge construction and dissemination. Integrative role of educational anthropologists with the help of ethnographic research on native communities across the world in developing innovative methods on how can local community knowledge be integrated into formal curriculum and pedagogic practice has been highlighted.

The Role of Kinship in Negotiating Territorial Rights

Inner Asia ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariell Ahearn
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Government Administration ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Territorial Rights ◽  
National Constitution ◽  
Land Use Practices

This paper explores the role of kinship in herder claims for winter shelter ownership in rural Mongolia, where pastureland is currently designated as state-owned property in the national constitution. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted amongst mobile pastoralist households, this article demonstrates how contemporary winter pasture rights take shape within a locus of political relations structured by custodial land-use practices. It highlights the ways that herders negotiate for territorial rights through appeals to established regional families and are how these appeals are mediated by local government administration. From this analysis, I argue that concepts of kinship in the political economy of pastoralism should be re-examined in light of current debates around land-tenure legislation in Mongolia.

scholarly journals Analysis of Al-Mawardi and Ibn Rushd political thoughts in the context Pakistani political system

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-212
Author(s):  
Muhammad Umar Riaz Abbasi
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Government Structure ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
System A ◽  
Ibn Rushd ◽  
Islamic Society

This study was aimed to comparatively analyse the political thoughts of Al-Mawardi and Ibn Rushd, and their possible implications in the current Pakistani political system. A qualitative method was chosen to conduct the study and they were collected from secondary sources. Besides, content analysis was used to analyse the collected data. The role of politics considered a significant part of human’s life, since time immemorial. In terms of epistemological meaning, politics has a deep relation with power. Different kind of ordinances and law documents was collected related to public law in one place by Al-Mawardi and Ibn Rushd. No society, community, city, or even any country did not prevail, without an effective constitution or government structure. The famous scholar Ibn Rushd highlighted the political injustice and failure of the secular political laws which claimed to provide and established justice in the Islamic society. Muslims have bottomless faith in the political teachings of Islam taught by Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa (PBUH), His companions to accomplish in their communities. Al-Marwardi and Ibn Rushd School of thought, was greatly focused on the teaching of Islam in the modern world. It was recommended that there is a need for the implementation of the Islamic laws and rules in the society, to meet the laws of Islam for the prosperity of the society.

La Corona

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-195
Author(s):  
Marcello A. Canuto ◽  
Tomás Barrientos Q.
Keyword(s):  
Complex Interaction ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
The Political ◽  
Local Power ◽  
Late Classic ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Secondary Center ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 9 explores the political landscape of the Late Classic Kaanul kingdom. Marcello A. Canuto and Tomás Barrientos Q. consider the role of secondary centers in the geopolitical landscape of the lowlands during the Late Classic period, using La Corona, Guatemala as a case study. In Chapter 9, Canuto and Barrientos Q. demonstrate that the relationship between the Kaanul hegemony and La Corona was much more complicated than simple political alliance. Kaanul’s complex interaction with its secondary center reveals some of the tools it used to create a monumental political landscape, including, in the case of La Corona, manipulating the local power structure, the community’s social organization, and even its sacred history.

scholarly journals The Roles and the Influences of Political Parties in the Parliament towards the Formation of Islamic Bank in Indonesia

FIAT JUSTISIA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Dwi Andayani Budisetyowati
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Islamic Banking ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Islamic Bank ◽  
The Government ◽  
Desk Research

The Islamic Banking has been growing significantly in Indonesia. However, studies discussed the detail of the roles and the influences of the political parties in the parliament towards the formation and the development of the Islamic Banks had been limited. Due to this condition, this paper aims at discussing the roles and the influences of the political parties in the parliament towards the formation and the development of Islamic Banks in Indonesia. The method used to examine the above issues is by conducting desk research. Data and information collected are from the secondary sources and the empirical studies advanced in the literature. The study argued that the Islamic banking had been given a social and economic contribution to the Indonesian economy. However, support for the formation and development of this bank is still limited. For that reason, it is a must for the Government of Indonesia in general and the Bank of Indonesia in particular to support the development of Islamic bank. Also, the role of the political parties in the parliament was also considered important. Thus, much remain to be done. Keywords: Islamic Banks, Parliament, Regulation, Bank of Indonesia, Formation, Development

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF IBRAKHIM DAVRON IN JADID LITERATURE

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 189-190
Author(s):  
Kodirova Mukhayyakhon Solievna
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Local People ◽  
The Political ◽  
The People

The end of the XIX - beginning of the XX century was a period of radical changes, new views and new goals not only in the political and social life of society, but also in the cultural and literary spheres. Undoubtedly, at the forefront of these serious changes were jadids, who were determined to reform the society life, to form new views in the minds of the people, and to inspire hope in the hearts of the local people.  

scholarly journals The Church and Political Transition in Zimbabwe: The Inclusive Government Context

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Mhandara ◽  
Charity Manyeruke ◽  
Sharon Hofisi
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
The Government ◽  
Transitional Phase ◽  
The Church

This article explores the role of the church in Zimbabwe’s political space with emphasis on the transitional epoch set in motion with the consummation of the Inclusive Government after the signing of the Global Political Agreement on 15 September 2008. Being exploratory in approach, the study preferred a qualitative research design were secondary sources were the major source of data. Departing from the view point that the church and the state are complementary in satisfying human needs, the research established that the church is replete with political activists who are partaking in key political processes envisaged under the transitional phase and the enormity of their participation vary depending on the national issue at hand. More clearly, the church’s association with the political parties in the government has been mostly that of a horse-rider relationship where politicians use the church to score cheap political points.

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