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Sian Lazar
Bio: Sian Lazar is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Citizenship & Politics. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 28 publications receiving 1369 citations.
Topics: Citizenship, Politics, Social movement, Democracy, Population
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04 Jan 2008
TL;DR: A list of illustrators can be found in this paper with the title "El Alto the City 25 Part One 2. Constructing the Zone 61 3. Citizens Despite the State 91 4. Place, Movement, and Ritual 118 5. How the Gods Touch Humans (and Vice Versa) 144 Part Two 6. Competition, Individualism, and Collective Organization 178 7. "In-Betweenness" and Political Agency 206 8. The State and the Unions 233 Conclusion 258 Notes 267 Glossary 283 Bibliography 287 Index 311
Abstract: List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. El Alto the City 25 Part One 2. Constructing the Zone 61 3. Citizens Despite the State 91 4. Place, Movement, and Ritual 118 5. How the Gods Touch Humans (and Vice Versa) 144 Part Two 6. Competition, Individualism, and Collective Organization 178 7. "In-Betweenness" and Political Agency 206 8. The State and the Unions 233 Conclusion 258 Notes 267 Glossary 283 Bibliography 287 Index 311
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the citizenship practices of urban Aymara in a neighbourhood of El Alto, Bolivia, through an examination of the municipal elections of December 1999, focusing on the instrumental and affective sides of clientelism.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate economic aspects of citizenship in El Alto Bolivia through an exploration of micro-credit NGOs working with female Aymara rural-urban migrants, arguing that these attempts to extend Liberal citizenship through debt are undermined in two ways: first because the womens responses to the educational components are complex and not always accepting; and second because the NGOs themselves rely upon a collective embedded economic nationality of kinship and social control to ensure the re-payment of loans.
Abstract: This article investigates economic aspects of citizenship in El Alto Bolivia through an exploration of micro-credit NGOs working with female Aymara rural-urban migrants. Such NGOs operate from a basis of transnational discourses of citizenship conceived in an individualized neoliberal framework. Their activities can be understood as a set of citizenship projects which attempt to modify the ways in which individuals act as economic agents and view themselves. In recent years the domain of the informal economy has become one of the key fields in which differing conceptions of individuality and citizenship are worked on by local people the state and international agencies. The micro-credit NGOs focus on entrepreneurial activity assumes a market-based economic nationality and combines this with capacity-building in a human development model. This combination reveals much about the kinds of female citizens that governments and development agencies seek to create in Bolivia: empowered individual entrepreneurial active citizens who will take responsibility for their own and their families welfare and who are prepared for the market rather than the state to provide for their social rights. This article will argue that these attempts to extend Liberal citizenship through debt are undermined in two ways: first because the womens responses to the educational components are complex and not always accepting; and second because the NGOs themselves rely upon a collective embedded economic nationality of kinship and social control to ensure the re-payment of loans. (authors)
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TL;DR: The edited proceedings of the 2015 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (GDT) held at Manchester as mentioned in this paper were published in the same year. But they were not discussed in this paper.
Abstract: This constitutes the edited proceedings of the 2015 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory held at Manchester.
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TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a judge in some representative American jurisdiction is assumed to accept the main uncontroversial constitutive and regulative rules of the law in his jurisdiction and to follow earlier decisions of their court or higher courts whose rationale, as l
Abstract: 1.. HARD CASES 5. Legal Rights A. Legislation . . . We might therefore do well to consider how a philosophical judge might develop, in appropriate cases, theories of what legislative purpose and legal principles require. We shall find that he would construct these theories in the same manner as a philosophical referee would construct the character of a game. I have invented, for this purpose, a lawyer of superhuman skill, learning, patience and acumen, whom I shall call Hercules. I suppose that Hercules is a judge in some representative American jurisdiction. I assume that he accepts the main uncontroversial constitutive and regulative rules of the law in his jurisdiction. He accepts, that is, that statutes have the general power to create and extinguish legal rights, and that judges have the general duty to follow earlier decisions of their court or higher courts whose rationale, as l
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TL;DR: Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality by Aihwa Ong as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the field of transnationality. ix. 322 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
Abstract: Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Aihwa Ong. Durham, NIC: Duke University Press, 1999. ix. 322 pp., notes, bibliography, index.
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04 Apr 2012
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that cities can become the focus for anti-capitalist resistance, and explore how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways.
Abstract: Cities have long been the pivotal sites of political revolutions, where deeper currents of social and political change are fleshed out. Consequently, they have been the subject of much utopian thinking about alternatives. But at the same time, they are also the centers of capital accumulation, and therefore the frontline for struggles over who has the right to the city, and who dictates the quality and organization of daily life. Is it the developers and financiers, or the people? Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class struggles, looking at locations ranging from Johannesburg to Mumbai, and from New York City to Sao Paulo. By exploring how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways, David Harvey argues that cities can become the focus for anti-capitalist resistance.
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TL;DR: The fast-paced growth of the Indian economy and particularly its cities has produced an urban crisis, one that is marked by the lack of adequate infrastructure and growth management as well as by s... as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The fast-paced growth of the Indian economy and particularly its cities has produced an urban crisis, one that is marked by the lack of adequate infrastructure and growth management as well as by s...
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