TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rajaram,Prem Kumar
TI  - Ruling the margins : colonial power and administrative rule in the past and present 
T2  - Interventions
SN  - 9781138636477
AV  - JV412 .R35 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Administration
KW  - History
KW  - Bureaucracy
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - Southern Hemisphere
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ruling the Margins -- Class and the Colonial City : The Production and Administration of Kuala Lumpur -- Of Law and Land : Producing Peasants and Landlords in Bengal -- Representing the Margins : Colonial Art and Photographs in the Service of Depoliticisation -- Mapping Iraq : Publics, Experts, Politics -- "The State Needs to Protect Itself" : Acts of Citizenship by Asylum-seekers in Hungary -- Spaces of Hope : Rethinking the Purposes of Citizenship
N2  - "Administrative rule is a type of rule centered on devising and implementing regulations governing how we live and how we conduct ourselves economically and politically, and sometimes culturally. The principle feature of this type of rule is the important question about how things should be arranged and for what purpose becomes a bureaucratic matter. Histories of the global south are rarely used to explain contemporary political structures or phenomena. This book uses histories of colonial power and colonial state-making to shed light on administrative government as a form of rule. Prem Kumar Rajaram eloquently presents how administrative power is a social process and the authority and terms of rule derived are tenuous, dependent on producing unitary meaning and direction to diverse political, social and economic relationships and practices"--
ER  -