The Birth of a Plural Society
Author | : Lewis H. Gann |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Zambia |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lewis H. Gann |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Zambia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lewis H. Gann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lewis Henry Gann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Rhodesia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lesslie Newbigin |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1989-10-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780802804266 |
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Author | : Lewis Henry Gann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Zambia |
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Author | : Anoma Pieris |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2009-02-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0824833546 |
During the nineteenth century, the colonial Straits Settlements of Singapore, Penang, and Melaka were established as free ports of British trade in Southeast Asia and proved attractive to large numbers of regional migrants. Following the abolishment of slavery in 1833, the Straits government transported convicts from the East India Company’s Indian presidencies to the settlements as a source of inexpensive labor. The prison became the primary experimental site for the colonial plural society and convicts were graduated by race and the labor needed for urban construction. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes investigates how a political system aimed at managing ethnic communities in the larger material context of the colonial urban project was first imagined and tested through the physical segregation of the colonial prison. It relates the story of a city, Singapore, and a contemporary city-state whose plural society has its origins in these historical divisions. A description of the evolution of the ideal plan for a plural city across the three settlements is followed by a detailed look at Singapore’s colonial prison. Chapters trace the prison’s development and its dissolution across the urban landscape through the penal labor system. The author demonstrates the way in which racial politics were inscribed spatially in the division of penal facilities and how the map of the city was reconfigured through convict labor. Later chapters describe penal resistance first through intimate stories of penal life and then through a discussion of organized resistance in festival riots. Eventually, the plural city ideal collapsed into the hegemonic urban form of the citadel, where a quite different military vision of the city became evident. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes is a fascinating and thoroughly original study in urban history and the making of multiethnic society in Singapore. It will compel readers to rethink the ways in which colonial urban history, postcolonial urbanism, and governance have been theorized by scholars and represented by governments.
Author | : Arend Lijphart |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1977-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780300024944 |
While it may be difficult to achieve and maintain stable democratic governments in countries with deep religious, ideological, linguistic, cultural, or ethnic cleavages, Lijphart argues that it is not at all impossible. Through the analysis of political systems in six continents, he demonstrates that what he calls consociational democracy can be successful in severely divided or plural societies. "Here, once again, Arend Lijphart is directing our attention to matters which will surely engage much of the attention of students of comparative politics in the next decade." G. Bingham Powell, Jr., American Political Science Review "A study which can speak to such a wide audience in political science deserves a warm welcome from the profession." Government and Opposition "A copybook example of the comparative method of political analysis, as well as indispensable reading for all who have an interest in the nature and prospects of representative democracy, whether in Europe or beyond."--The Times Higher Education Supplement "This well-written work, containing a wealth of information on politics of many diverse nations, is highly recommended."--Library Journal
Author | : Alvin Rabushka |
Publisher | : Addison-Wesley Longman |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Comparative government |
ISBN | : 9780205617616 |
This landmark study in the field of comparative politics is being celebrated for its return to print as the newest addition to the "Longman Classics in Political Science" series. Politics in Plural Societies presents a model of political competition in multi-ethnic societies and explains why plural societies, and the struggle for power within them, often erupt with inter-ethnic hostility. Distinguished scholars Alvin Rabushka and Kenneth Shepsle collaborate again in this reissuing of their classic work to demonstrate - in a new epilogue - the persistence of the arguments and evidence first offered in the book. They apply this thesis to the multi-ethnic politics of countries that are of great interest today: Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Yugoslavia, and more.
Author | : Michael Garfield Smith |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : West Indies, British |
ISBN | : 9780520027794 |
Author | : University of California, Los Angeles. African Studies Center |
Publisher | : Berkeley : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Compilation of conference papers, presented at a meeting, on the impact of pluralistic social structures on political and social change in Africa - covers social theories, intergroup relations (incl. Between Europeans Asians, tribal peoples, etc.), leadership, social integration, cultural factors, etc., and includes case studies of social behaviour in African countries prior to and since deconolization. Bibliography pp. 491 to 527. Conference held in los angeles 1966.