The Visual Construction of Criminality

RAB’s Photo Sessions and the Visual Construction of Criminality
November 16th, 2009 Posted in Bangladesh, governance
By Rahnuma Ahmed
The title of my column is somewhat misleading, I think it’s best to state that right away. Intrigued by the press briefings that RAB (Rapid Action Battalion) offices hold every so often where `criminals’ are displayed alongwith crime artefacts laid out on [...]

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Client-ship and Citizenship in Latin America

By Lucy Taylor
Read full article at Bulletin of Latin American Research
(…) Despite such critiques, many people in many ways are becoming more like citizens. They are more certain of their value as individuals in relation to others who are richer and more powerful, and they are better aware of their rights (because the struggle for [...]

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Participatory Budgeting in the Andes: Between Governmentality and the Infrapolitics of Resistance

John D. Cameron
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
A better understanding of the differences between the ‘public performances’ and ‘backstage commentaries’ of poor and marginalized people in participatory budget schemes is important for both development practitioners and scholars. For practitioners, it is important to recognize that people may take part in participatory [...]

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The Work of Neoliberal Governmentality: Temporality and Ethical Substance in the Tale of Two Dads

By Sam Binkley, Emerson College
Rich Dad Poor Dad is a best selling book on financial advice written by Robert T. Kiyosaki. Originally self-published in 1997 as supporting material for Kiyosaki’s financial advice lectures, and later picked up by Warner Business Books in 2000, the text relates a rich allegorical narrative about the mental hard wiring [...]

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Patronage Politics and Contentious Collective Action: A Recursive Relationship

By Javier Auyero, Pablo Lapegna and Fernanda Page Poma
“Since the early 1990s, much of Latin America has witnessed the simultaneous growth of both protest and clientelism (Svampa and Pereyra 2003; Giarracca 2001; Giraudy 2007; Levitsky 2003; Stokes 2005; Auyero 2007; Almeida and Johnston 2006; Shefner et al. 2006; López-Maya and Lander 2006), a twin process [...]

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An evening in Burqin

By Pierre Beaudet (Alternatives)
Published at Rabble

August 5, 2009

The sun is slowly coming down in this northern West Bank village. We are really a few kilometers from Galilee just outside the green line. The sun is slowly coming down in this northern West Bank village. We are really a few kilometers from Galilee [...]

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Honduras Tries for a PR Coup

From http://www.prwatch.org/node/8466
The negotiating team representing Honduras‘ coup government “rarely made a move without consulting … an American public relations specialist who has done work for former President Bill Clinton,” reports the New York Times. Roberto Micheletti heads the “de facto” government of Honduras, which took power after the military coup against elected president Manuel Zelaya. [...]

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Inscribing Subjects to Citizenship: Petitions, Literacy Activism, and the Performativity of Signature in Rural Tamil India

By Francis Cody
“But for the women who had come to the office that day from Katrampatti, my sense is that they would only have been satisfied that they had performed the act of petitioning at grievance day if they had been able to see the collector and plead with him orally using generic conventions compelling [...]

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Honduras: a military coup in the era of governamentality

In Honduras, One-Sided News of Crisis
Critics Cite Slanted Local Coverage, Limits on Pro-Zelaya Outlets
By Juan Forero
“Several countries condemned the events of June 28 as a military coup. But in Honduras, some of the most popular and influential television stations and radio networks blacked out coverage or adhered to the de facto government’s line that Manuel [...]

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