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The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics by Tania Murray Li
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This article is published in American Ethnologist.The article was published on 2010-02-01. It has received 453 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Governmentality.read more
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The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics
TL;DR: Sabogal, Mabel, et al. as mentioned in this paper have published "The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics". Journal of Ecological Anthropology 13, no. 1 (2009): 78-80.
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To Make Live or Let Die? Rural Dispossession and the Protection of Surplus Populations
TL;DR: The authors examined the question of who would act to keep these people alive and why would they act, by contrasting a conjuncture in India, where a make live program has been assembled under the rubric of the right to food, and Indonesia, where the massacre of the organized left in 1965 has left dispossessed populations radically exposed.
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Access and Property: A Question of Power and Authority
Thomas Sikor,Christian Lund +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that access and property regarding natural resources are intimately bound up with the exercise of power and authority, and that the process of seeking authorizations for property claims also has the effect of granting authority to the authorizing politico-legal institution.
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A relational approach to durable poverty, inequality and power.
TL;DR: The article draws on the work of Steven Lukes, Pierre Bourdieu and Arjun Appadurai to argue the need to incorporate a multidimensional conception of power; including not only power as the direct assertion of will but also ‘agenda-setting power’ that sets the terms in which poverty becomes (or fails to become) politicised, and closely related to power as political representation.
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Participatory Budgeting as if Emancipation Mattered
TL;DR: In this article, the authors disaggregate PB into communicative and empowerment dimensions and argue that its empowerment dimensions have usually not been part of its global expansion, and this is cause for concern from the point of view of emancipation.