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Demanding Sustainability: Pillars to (Re-)Build a Shared Prosperity
by John Morrissey C. Patrick HeidkampLonger term thinking and new approaches to development and prosperity have never been more urgently required. Since 2020, the precarity of the global economy, links between ecological destruction and public health and disparities in levels of exposure and vulnerability to systemic disruption have all been thrown into stark relief. In this book the authors put forward a series of principles on which economic and development policy for the post-Covid era should be developed. These are outlined as five 'pillars' through which to (re-)build a shared prosperity in the aftermath of the Covid-19 global shock. The five pillars are an ecological prosperity (pillar one), a decarbonized economy (pillar two), a shared (cost) burden (pillar three), a transformative social sustainability (pillar four) and a just resilience (pillar five). The book provides a framework through which policymakers, decision-makers, politicians, community groups and the corporate sphere might begin to consider, map out, and plan for just transitions in their domains.
The Demands of Recognition: State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling
by Townsend MiddletonSince the British colonial period anthropology has been central to policy in India. But today, while the Indian state continues to use ethnography to govern, those who were the "objects" of study are harnessing disciplinary knowledge to redefine their communities, achieve greater prosperity, and secure political rights. In this groundbreaking study, Townsend Middleton tracks these newfound "lives" of anthropology. Offering simultaneous ethnographies of the people of Darjeeling's quest for "tribal" status and the government anthropologists handling their claims, Middleton exposes how minorities are--and are not--recognized for affirmative action and autonomy. We encounter communities putting on elaborate spectacles of sacrifice, exorcism, bows and arrows, and blood drinking to prove their "primitiveness" and "backwardness. " Conversely, we see government anthropologists struggle for the ethnographic truth as communities increasingly turn academic paradigms back upon the state. The Demands of Recognition offers a compelling look at the escalating politics of tribal recognition in India. At once ethnographic and historical, it chronicles how multicultural governance has motivated the people of Darjeeling to ethnologically redefine themselves--from Gorkha to tribal and back. But as these communities now know, not all forms of difference are legible in the eyes of the state. The Gorkhas' search for recognition has only amplified these communities' anxieties about who they are--and who they must be--if they are to attain the rights, autonomy, and belonging they desire.
Demands of the Day: On the Logic of Anthropological Inquiry
by Paul Rabinow Anthony StavrianakisDemands of the Day asks about the logical standards and forms that should guide ethical and experimental anthropology in the twenty-first century. Anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis do so by taking up Max Weber's notion of the "demands of the day. " Just as the demand of the day for anthropology decades ago consisted of thinking about fieldwork, today, they argue, the demand is to examine what happens after, how the experiences of fieldwork are gathered, curated, narrated, and ultimately made available for an anthropological practice that moves beyond mere ethnographic description. Rabinow and Stavrianakis draw on experiences from an innovative set of anthropological experiments that investigated how and whether the human and biological sciences could be brought into a mutually enriching relationship. Conceptualizing the anthropological and philosophic ramifications of these inquiries, they offer a bold challenge to contemporary anthropology to undertake a more rigorous examination of its own practices, blind spots, and capacities, in order to meet the demands of our day.
Demands of the Day: On the Logic of Anthropological Inquiry
by Paul Rabinow Anthony StavrianakisDemands of the Day asks about the logical standards and forms that should guide ethical and experimental anthropology in the twenty-first century. Anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis do so by taking up Max Weber’s notion of the “demands of the day.” Just as the demand of the day for anthropology decades ago consisted of thinking about fieldwork, today, they argue, the demand is to examine what happens after, how the experiences of fieldwork are gathered, curated, narrated, and ultimately made available for an anthropological practice that moves beyond mere ethnographic description. Rabinow and Stavrianakis draw on experiences from an innovative set of anthropological experiments that investigated how and whether the human and biological sciences could be brought into a mutually enriching relationship. Conceptualizing the anthropological and philosophic ramifications of these inquiries, they offer a bold challenge to contemporary anthropology to undertake a more rigorous examination of its own practices, blind spots, and capacities, in order to meet the demands of our day.
Demands On Rural Lands: Planning For Resource Use
by Barry Smit Chris Cocklin Tom JohnstonPlanning for the use of rural lands in the developed countries of the world has become an increasingly contentious process as resources become more limited and conflicting needs grow stronger. The critical questions are "Which is more important—agriculture, livestock production, recreation, industry, or urban housing?" and "Who decides priorities and responsibilities for use?" The capacity of the land to meet all of the demands placed upon it, without serious environmental disruption, has become a major concern for all. Recognizing the exigencies of the situation, the contributors define and evaluate the theoretical and methodological frameworks within which rural land-use problems can be analyzed. In , the discussions focus on the identification and characterization of resources and competing users of rural lands, stressing that a careful articulation of the problem is essential to effective planning. is aimed at developing appropriate information bases useful in planning for the problems related to the management of these rural lands. The discussion of policy options for rural resource use in builds upon the material in the previous two sections to provide a framework for an analysis of rural resource use.
Dementia: Everything Your Doctor Doesn't Have Time to Tell You
by Matt PiccaverYou have suspected for a while that you, or a loved one, might have dementia - and your family doctor has just confirmed this. But they have only ten minutes to tell you everything you need to know about the diagnosis, and it's taken you half that time to take your coat off. This book by a busy working doctor tells you everything you need to know about dementia and its various forms. It will help you to understand what happens to the brain when it develops Alzheimer's Disease (or other forms of dementia) and what the treatment possibilities are. It explains what to expect with symptoms, suggests some non-pharmacological approaches to managing the condition, and covers such practicalities as driving, making your home safe and giving or receiving Power of Attorney where necessary.Covering Alzheimer's Disease, vascular dementia, Dementia with Lewy Bodies and all the other major neurogenerative conditions, this book is packed with information, written with a light, wry humour, and answers all the questions that you didn't know you had until you left the surgery...
Dementia: Everything Your Doctor Doesn't Have Time to Tell You
by Matt PiccaverYou have suspected for a while that you, or a loved one, might have dementia - and your family doctor has just confirmed this. But they have only ten minutes to tell you everything you need to know about the diagnosis, and it's taken you half that time to take your coat off. This book by a busy working doctor tells you everything you need to know about dementia and its various forms. It will help you to understand what happens to the brain when it develops Alzheimer's Disease (or other forms of dementia) and what the treatment possibilities are. It explains what to expect with symptoms, suggests some non-pharmacological approaches to managing the condition, and covers such practicalities as driving, making your home safe and giving or receiving Power of Attorney where necessary.Covering Alzheimer's Disease, vascular dementia, Dementia with Lewy Bodies and all the other major neurogenerative conditions, this book is packed with information, written with a light, wry humour, and answers all the questions that you didn't know you had until you left the surgery...
Dementia and Aging Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: A Handbook
by Matthew P. Janicki Arthur J. DaltonThis definitive handbook assembles the most recent advances in knowledge about dementia, Alzheimer Disease, and related disorders as they affect persons with intellectual disabilities. Diagnosis, assessment, treatment, and management and care practices are detailed in a practical manner making this a useful tool to both students and trained professionals. After an introduction to the subject, the book begins with persoanl accounts of three affected individuals whose signs of dementia are described from clinical, family member, and care-provider perspectives, respectively. The biology and physiology of dementia, as well as the neurological and medical complications associated with it, are then provided in Parts Two, three, and Four. The application and practical perspectives of this handbook are enhanced in Part Five which details the best practices available to meet the needs and challenges involved in care and quality of life issues. The challenge raised by the rapidly growing number of aging individuals with intellectual disabilities forms the basis for the final part of the volume, an analysis and presentation of rarely addressed policy issues. Extensive resource information and a comprehensive glossary contribute to the useful nature of this handbook. Practitioners, service providers, educators and students will benefit from the accessability and practicality if this text as well as the breadth and depth of knowledge of the editors and contributors.
Dementia and Human Rights
by Suzanne CahillThe time has come to further challenge biomedical and clinical thinking about dementia, which has for so long underpinned policy and practice. Framing dementia as a disability, this book takes a rights-based approach to expand the debate. Applying a social constructionist lens, it builds on earlier critical perspectives by bringing together concepts including disability, social inclusion, personhood, equality, participation, dignity, empowerment, autonomy and solidarity. Launching the debate into new and exciting territory, the book argues that people living with dementia come within the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and therefore have full entitlement to all the rights the Convention enshrines. A human rights-based approach has not to date been fully applied to interrogate the lived experience and policy response to dementia. With the fresh analytical tools provided in this book, policy makers and practitioners will will gain new insights into how this broader perspective can be used to further promote the quality of life and quality of care for all those affected by dementia.
Dementia and Literature: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities)
by Tess MaginessDementia is an urgent global concern, often termed a widespread ‘problem’, ‘tragedy’ or ‘burden’ and a subject best addressed by health and social policy and practice. However, creative writers can offer powerful and imaginative insights into the experience of dementia across cultures and over time. This cross-disciplinary volume explores how engaging with dementia through its myriad literary representations can help to deepen and humanise attitudes to people living with the condition. Offering and interrogating a wide array of perspectives about how dementia might be ‘imagined’, this book allows us to see how different ways of being can inflect one another. By drawing on the ‘lived’ experience of the individual unique person and their loved ones, literature can contribute to a deeper and more compassionate and more liberating attitude to a phenomenon that is both natural and unnatural. Novels, plays and stories reveal a rich panoply of responses ranging from the tragic to the comic, allowing us to understand that people with dementia often offer us models of humour, courage and resilience, and carers can also embody a range of responses from rigidity to compassion. Dementia and Literature problematises the subject of dementia, encouraging us all to question our own hegemonies critically and creatively. Drawing on literary studies, cultural studies, education, clinical psychology, psychiatry, nursing and gerontology, this book is a fascinating contribution to the emerging area of the medical and health humanities. The book will be of interest to those living with dementia and their caregivers as well as to the academic community and policy makers.
Dementia as Social Experience: Valuing Life and Care
by Gaynor Macdonald Jane MearsA diagnosis of dementia changes the ways people engage with each other – for those living with dementia, as well their families, caregivers, friends, health professionals, neighbours, shopkeepers and the community. Medical understandings, necessary as they are, provide no insights into how we may all live good lives with dementia. This innovative volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners to focus on dementia as lived experience. It foregrounds dementia’s social, moral, political and economic dimensions, investigating the challenges of reframing the dementia experience for all involved. Part I critiques the stigmas, the negativity, language and fears often associated with a dementia diagnosis, challenging debilitating representations and examining ways to tackle these. Part II examines proactive practices that can support better long-term outcomes for those living with dementia. Part III looks at the relational aspects of dementia care, acknowledging and going beyond the notion of person-centred care. Collectively, these contributions highlight the social and relational change required to enhance life for those with dementia and those who care for them. Engaging in a critical conversation around personhood and social value, this book examines the wider social contexts within which dementia care takes place. It calls for social change, and looks for inspiration to the growing movement for relational care and the caring society. Dementia as Social Experience is important reading for all those people who, in various ways, are living with dementia, as well as for those working in this area as clinicians, researcher and carers.
Dementia: The Basics (The Basics)
by Anthea Innes Lesley Calvert Gail BowkerDementia: The Basics provides the reader with a clear and compassionate introduction to dementia and an accessible guide to dealing with different parts of the dementia journey, from pre-diagnosis and diagnosis to post-diagnostic support, increasing care needs and end of life care. Co-authored by an academic, a person living with dementia and a family carer, the book endeavours to raise awareness of dementia, challenge stereotypical and negative ideas about what it means to have dementia and champion a society where people living with dementia can be active as they wish for as long as possible. The authors present an overview of current research at each step of the dementia journey as well as including knowledge from lived experience, enhancing understanding and challenging thinking about what it might be like to live with a diagnosis or to care for a loved one. As a whole, the book emphasises the importance of prioritising the person living with dementia, as well as considering the impact of what any initiative or action might mean for them, their families and their care supporters. Offering both an accessible introduction to dementia and practical tools, this book will be ideal for health and social care professionals, students of social care, health care and nursing, people with dementia, carers and anyone wanting to understand more about the condition.
Dementia, Culture and Ethnicity: Issues for All
by Jan Smith Julia Botsford Alistair Burns Alisoun Milne Omar Khan Karen Harrison Dening Jill Manthorpe Ajit Shah Karen Jutlla Joy Watkins Vincent Goodorally Shemain Wahab Jo Moriarty Sofia Laura EscuderoWith contributions from experienced dementia practitioners and care researchers, this book examines the impact of culture and ethnicity on the experience of dementia and on the provision of support and services, both in general terms and in relation to specific minority ethnic communities. Drawing together evidence-based research and expert practitioners' experiences, this book highlights the ways that dementia care services will need to develop in order to ensure that provision is culturally appropriate for an increasingly diverse older population. The book examines cultural issues in terms of assessment and engagement with people with dementia, challenges for care homes, and issues for supporting families from diverse ethnic backgrounds in relation to planning end of life care and bereavement. First-hand accounts of living with dementia from a range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds give unique perspectives into different attitudes to dementia and dementia care. The contributors also examine recent policy and strategy on dementia care and the implications for working with culture and ethnicity. This comprehensive and timely book is essential reading for dementia care practitioners, researchers and policy makers.
Dementia-Friendly Communities: Why We Need Them and How We Can Create Them
by Susan McFaddenCreating dementia-friendly communities can give people with dementia the chance to continue meaningful lives with reciprocal personal relationships. Underpinning successful dementia-friendly communities is an awareness of people with dementia as active citizens and the importance of supporting engagement in community life. This book offers an overview of the dementia-friendly communities movement, showing the many benefits of this approach. It describes community initiatives from across the globe, such as Dementia Friends, memory cafes, and creative engagement with the arts through organizations like TimeSlips. This compassionate book tells another story about dementia, away from negative stereotypes. This alternative approach claims people can retain a sense of dignity, hold onto hope, sustain meaningful relationships, and live with a sense of purpose with support from their communities.
Dementia in Prison: An Ethical Framework to Support Research, Practice and Prisoners
by Joanne BrookeThis innovative volume exposes dementia as a condition that the aging prison population is increasingly facing. Going beyond exploring the need to understand dementia within prison populations, it argues that healthcare workers and prison staff must ensure that prisoners developing dementia during their sentence are identified and supported. Dementia in Prison covers three key areas: • Healthcare services in prison settings and how these affect the rapidly aging prison population, • The human rights of prisoners with dementia, alongside the ethics of healthcare in this environment, • The current state of support for prisoners with dementia and any recommendations for future assessment, diagnosis, and policies. This provocative book will be invaluable to scholars in the fields of public health, criminology and medical sociology as well as nurses and prison staff.
Dementia Studies: A Social Science Perspective
by Dr Anthea InnesWhat is dementia? How should we organize dementia care? This comprehensive book critically examines the main approaches to understanding dementia (bio-medical, social-psychological and socio-gerontological) and the main principles and ideologies of care. The book: * provides clarity on the gap between the utopian aspirations of care and the reality of care * opens up a series of questions about knowledge and treatment of dementia * argues for a transition from positions that place emphasis upon the individual or particular care services to the social, cultural and economic context Lively, informative and challenging, the book will be of interest to students of nursing, sociology of health & illness, social work and social gerontology. Anthea Innes teaches at the Dementia Services Development Centre, University of Stirling
The Demise of a Rural Economy: From Subsistence to Capitalism in a Latin American Village (Routledge Library Editions)
by Stephen GudemanBridging a gap between macro- and micro- viewpoints, the work shows the ways in which an economy is socially and historically determined. Subsistence is shown to be not only a form of agriculture but a determinant economic organisation and particular attention is paid to the problem of understanding patterns of distribution and the constitution of the surplus in the peasant economy. First published in 1978.
The Demise of the Inhuman: Afrocentricity, Modernism, and Postmodernism
by Ana Monteiro-FerreiraWinner of the 2015 Best Scholarly Book Award presented by the Diopian Institute for Scholarly AdvancementAfrocentricity is the most intellectually dominant idea in the African world, one that is having a growing impact on social science discourse. This paradigm, philosophically rooted in African cultures and values, fundamentally challenges major epistemological traditions in Western thought, such as modernism and postmodernism, Marxism, existentialism, feminism, and postcolonialism. In The Demise of the Inhuman, Ana Monteiro-Ferreira reviews what Molefi Kete Asante has called the "infrastructures of dominance and privilege," arguing that Western concepts such as individualism, colonialism, race and ethnicity, universalism, and progress, are insufficient to overcome various forms of oppression. Afrocentricity, she argues, can help lead us beyond Western structures of thought that have held sway since the early fifteenth century, towards a new epistemological framework that will enable a more human humanity.
The Demise of the Reasonable Man: A Cross-cultural Study of a Legal Concept
by Michael SaltmanJudges in most societies often resort to resolving disputes by means of applying a criterion of reasonableness. In The Demise of the'Reasonable Man' Michael Saltman explores the ways in which reasonableness varies from one legal culture to another, defined by the relative presence or absence of centralized political power. In non-politically centralized societies, Saltman says, judges seek meanings underlying human behavior, and try to place reasonableness within a societal and cultural context. This is possible because primitive societies are relatively homogenous in their values and tend towards consensus when determining what constitutes reasonable behavior. In contrast, modern judges resort to standards of reasonableness only when the legal standard is unclear. Saltman contrasts judges in politically centralized societies, who, in the absence of such consensus, have the authority to determine, on the basis of that authority, what constitutes reasonableness. This rich volume references case studies drawn from ethnographic fieldwork, historical sources, and law reports to demonstrate differences in judicial attitudes toward reasonableness.
The Demise of the Soviet Communist Party (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)
by Atsushi OgushiThis book, based on extensive original research in previously unexplored sources, including the party archives, provides a great deal of new information on the disintegration of the Soviet communist party, in 1991 and the preceding years. It argues that, contrary to prevailing views, the party was reformable in late Soviet times, but that attempts to reform it failed: reforms succeeded in preventing the party interfering in the state body, and thereby abolished the party's traditional administrative functions, but without creating an alternative power centre, and without transforming the party from a vanguard party into a parliamentary party. It demonstrates that the party, having ceased to offer career paths for aspiring party members, thereby lost its reason for existence, that an exodus of party members then followed, which in turn caused a financial crisis; and that this financial crisis, and the resulting engagement in commercial activity, fragmented and dispersed party property. It shows how the failed coup of 1991 was led by the military rather than the party, and how having lost its reason for existence and its property, the party had no choice but to accept the reality that it was de facto dead.
Democracia: Guia do Usuário
by Joss SheldonDIZEM QUE VIVEMOS EM UMA DEMOCRACIA. SOMOS LIVRES, E, POR ISSO, DEVEMOS SER GRATOS. Quão democráticas são as nossas chamadas “democracias”? Será suficiente apenas eleger os nossos líderes e esperar sentados, indefesos, enquanto eles nos governam como ditadores? De que serve escolher os nossos políticos, se não podemos controlar os meios de comunicação, a polícia ou os soldados? Se devemos obedecer cegamente às ordens dos nossos professores e chefes, tanto na escola quanto no local de trabalho, não é um pouco ingênuo acreditar que somos os donos dos nossos próprios destinos? E se os nossos recursos são controlados por uma pequena conspiração de plutocratas, banqueiros e empresas, podemos afirmar honestamente que gerenciamos as nossas economias? As coisas não poderiam ser um pouco mais, digamos, democráticas? Claro que poderiam! "Democracia: Guia do Usuário", nos mostra como... Nas páginas deste livro repleto de histórias, visitaremos Summerhill, uma escola democrática no Leste da Inglaterra, antes de pararmos no Brasil para conferir a Semco, onde a democracia no local de trabalho é o nome do jogo. Viajaremos para Rojava, para explorar a vida de um exército democrático, e iremos à Espanha, para conhecer a oportunidade dada pelo Podemos à democracia líquida. Viajaremos no tempo para ver a democracia em ação nas sociedades de caçadores-coletores, nas confederações tribais, nas guildas e nos bens comuns. Consideraremos os casos do orçamento participativo, da democracia deliberativa, da contratação colaborativa, das moedas comunitárias, dos empréstimos peer-to-peer e muito mais. A mensagem é clara e concisa: a democracia não precisa ser uma utopia. Temos todas as ferramentas necessárias para governar a nós mesmos.
Democracia: Una Guía Para el Usuario
by Joss SheldonDICEN QUE VIVIMOS EN UNA DEMOCRACIA. QUE SOMOS LIBRES Y DEBERÍAMOS ESTAR AGRADECIDOS. ¿Pero cuán "libres" somos? ¿Cuán democráticas son realmente nuestras denominadas "Democracias"? ¿Es suficiente con elegir a nuestros líderes y luego sentarnos, indefensos, mientras nos gobiernan como dictadores? ¿De qué sirve elegir a nuestros políticos, si no podemos controlar nuestros medios de comunicación, la policía o la milicia? Si debemos seguir ciegamente las órdenes de nuestros maestros y jefes, en la escuela y en el trabajo, ¿no es un poco ingenuo creer que somos los dueños de nuestros propios destinos? Y si nuestros recursos son controlados por una pequeña cábala de plutócratas, banqueros y corporaciones; ¿podemos decir honestamente que nuestras economías están siendo dirigidas por nosotros? ¿No podrían las cosas ser un poco más, bueno, democráticas? ¡Por supuesto que sí! "Democracia: Una guía para el usuario" nos muestra cómo... Dentro de las páginas de este libro lleno de historias, visitaremos Summerhill, una escuela democrática situada en el este de Inglaterra, antes de hacer una parada en Brasil para echar una ojeada a Semco, donde la democracia en el lugar de trabajo es el nombre del juego. Viajaremos a Rojava, para explorar como es la vida en un ejército democrático, y luego nos dirigiremos a España, para ver por qué Podemos está dando una oportunidad a la democracia líquida. Viajaremos atrás en el tiempo, para estudiar la democracia en el la vida diaria de las sociedades de cazadores-recolectores, las confederaciones tribales, los gremios y las comunas. Consideraremos el caso del presupuesto participativo, la democracia deliberativa, la contratación colaborativa, las monedas comunitarias, los préstamos entre pares y mucho más. El mensaje es claro y conciso: La democracia no tiene que ser una quimera. Tenemos todas las herramientas que necesitamos para gobernarnos a no
Democracia republicana
by Carlos Salinas de GortariDemocracia republicana expone las ideas del ex presidente Carlos Salinas de Gortari acerca del riesgo que enfrentan los ciudadanos y la república. La República está en riesgo. De ese tamaño es el trance por el que atraviesa México. En el bicentenario de la Independencia y el centenario de la Revolución, la nación vuelve a enfrentar retos formidables que provienen tanto del interior de su territorio como más allá de sus fronteras. En el ámbito interno, se vive cotidianamente la angustia de la inseguridad. A esto se suma la década perdida de oportunidades económicas y de esperanzas sociales frustradas. El riesgo para México se agrava por el debate de las ideas en los medios: el país parece estar empobrecido intelectualmente. Frente a la dependencia pendular entre más mercado o más Estado, neoliberalismo o neopopulismo, esta obra es una propuesta para que los ciudadanos construyan una alternativa progresista. Se trata de pasar de los individuos que sólo votan y consumen a los grupos de ciudadanos que participan, se organizan y transforman su realidad. Para enfrentar la adversa realidad se requiere construir una nueva etapa del liberalismo social: la democracia republicana. Se propone una democracia con adjetivos porque ahora es el momento de los ciudadanos participativos, mediante organizaciones y un compromiso colectivo. El texto invita en particular a las mujeres y a los jóvenes a participar de manera comprometida. Hoy que México está en riesgo, la vinculación de la democracia con su adjetivo republicano resulta indispensable. Existe la posibilidad de construir una alternativa viable para la soberanía y la justicia. Pero nadie hará por los mexicanos lo que ellos no hagan por sí mismos de manera organizada y participativa. Por eso esta obra procura contribuir a la construcción de la democracia republicana, una alternativa por y para los ciudadanos.
Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida
by Tameka Bradley Hobbs"Hobbs unearths four lynchings that are critical to the understanding of the origins of civil rights in Florida. The oral histories from the victims' families and those in the communities make this a valuable contribution to African American, Florida, and civil rights history."--Derrick E. White, author of The Challenge of Blackness "A compelling reminder of just how troubling and violent the Sunshine State's racial past has been. A must read."--Irvin D.S. Winsboro, editor of Old South, New South, or Down South? Florida is frequently viewed as an atypical southern state--more progressive and culturally diverse--but, when examined in proportion to the number of African American residents, it suffered more lynchings than any of its Deep South neighbors during the Jim Crow era. Investigating this dark period of the state's history and focusing on a rash of anti-black violence that took place during the 1940s, Tameka Hobbs explores the reasons why lynchings continued in Florida when they were starting to wane elsewhere. She contextualizes the murders within the era of World War II, contrasting the desire of the United States to broadcast the benefits of its democracy abroad while at home it struggled to provide legal protection to its African American citizens. As involvement in the global war deepened and rhetoric against Axis powers heightened, the nation's leaders became increasingly aware of the blemish left by extralegal violence on America's reputation. Ultimately, Hobbs argues, the international implications of these four murders, along with other antiblack violence around the nation, increased pressure not only on public officials in Florida to protect the civil rights of African Americans in the state but also on the federal government to become more active in prosecuting racial violence. Tameka Bradley Hobbs is assistant professor of history at Florida Memorial University.
Democracy against Development: Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India
by Jeffrey WitsoeHidden behind the much-touted success story of India s emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation s recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and often violent, political movements. In"Democracy against Development," Jeffrey Witsoe investigates this counter-narrative, uncovering an antagonistic relationship between recent democratic mobilization and development-oriented governance in India. Witsoe looks at the history of colonialism in India and its role in both shaping modern caste identities and linking locally powerful caste groups to state institutions, which has effectively created a postcolonial patronage state. He then looks at the rise of lower-caste politics in one of India s poorest and most populous states, Bihar, showing how this increase in democratic participation has radically threatened the patronage state by systematically weakening its institutions and disrupting its development projects. By depicting democracy and development as they truly are in India in tension Witsoe reveals crucial new empirical and theoretical insights about the long-term trajectory of democratization in the larger postcolonial world. "