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Author Halstead, Narmala, author.

Title Competing power : landscapes of migration, violence and the state / Narmala Halstead
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages)
Contents Amidst illegality and violence : flight and the state -- Illegality and big ones : disengaging structural violence -- Local others : residents, bandits, migrants -- Local lives, global selves : new local imaginaries and 'go and come' -- Re-presencing the local -- Co-occupying public power : challenges, abuse and structural violence -- Materializing a strange-familiar local : individuals, migrants' experiences and strategies of governance -- In and out of the local : blame-sharing, faulty persons and the state
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 03, 2022)
Subject Power (Social sciences) -- Guyana
Violence -- Guyana
Migration, Internal -- Guyana
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Migration, Internal
Power (Social sciences)
Social conditions
Violence
SUBJECT Guyana -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058023
Subject Guyana
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018034900
ISBN 9781785339936
1785339931