BookDOI
The nation and its fragments : colonial and postcolonial histories
TLDR
The Nation and its Peasants and its Outcasts173Ch. 10The National State200Ch. 11Communities and the Nation220Notes241Bibliography263Index273.Abstract:
Preface and AcknowledgmentsCh. 1Whose Imagined Community?3Ch. 2The Colonial State14Ch. 3The Nationalist Elite35Ch. 4The Nation and Its Pasts76Ch. 5Histories and Nations95Ch. 6The Nation and Its Women116Ch. 7Women and the Nation135Ch. 8The Nation and Its Peasants158Ch. 9The Nation and Its Outcasts173Ch. 10The National State200Ch. 11Communities and the Nation220Notes241Bibliography263Index273read more
Citations
More filters
Book
Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects
TL;DR: The Politics of Nature and the Making of Environmental Subjects as discussed by the authors is a series of articles about the creation of forests and the role of government in the creation and management of forests. But it is not a comprehensive survey of the field.
Book
Imperialism, sovereignty, and the making of international law
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the colonial origins of international law and the legacies of the mandate system: toward the present and conclude that the post-colonization and post-colonial state are the peripheries of the universal international law.
MonographDOI
Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality
Richard Bauman,Charles L. Briggs +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the construction of modernity and its others in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century England is discussed. And the critical foundations of national epic: Hugh Blair, the Ossian controversy, and the rhetoric of authenticity.
Journal ArticleDOI
Environmentality : Community, intimate government, and the making of environmental subjects in Kumaon, India
TL;DR: The authors examined how and for what reasons rural residents come to care about the environment and explored the deep and durable relationship between government and subjectivity and showed how regulatory strategies associated with and resulting from community decision making help transform those who participate in government.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Politics of Space, Time and Substance: State Formation, Nationalism, and Ethnicity
TL;DR: The relationship between common sense categories of experience and analytical concepts developed in order to understand the processes that produce such categories and effect their taken-for-grantedness is discussed in this paper.