The Birth of a Plural Society
Author: Lewis H. Gann
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 270
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lewis H. Gann
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 270
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1989-10-30
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780802804266
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →INSPIRATIONAL
Author: Alvin Rabushka
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780205617616
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This landmark study in the field of comparative politics is being celebrated for its return to print as the newest addition to the "Longman Classics in Political Science" series. Politics in Plural Societies presents a model of political competition in multi-ethnic societies and explains why plural societies, and the struggle for power within them, often erupt with inter-ethnic hostility. Distinguished scholars Alvin Rabushka and Kenneth Shepsle collaborate again in this reissuing of their classic work to demonstrate - in a new epilogue - the persistence of the arguments and evidence first offered in the book. They apply this thesis to the multi-ethnic politics of countries that are of great interest today: Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan, Yugoslavia, and more.
Author: Robert Leroy Canfield
Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Published: 1973-01-01
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 0932206484
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Anoma Pieris
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2009-02-26
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0824833546
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the nineteenth century, the colonial Straits Settlements of Singapore, Penang, and Melaka were established as free ports of British trade in Southeast Asia and proved attractive to large numbers of regional migrants. Following the abolishment of slavery in 1833, the Straits government transported convicts from the East India Company’s Indian presidencies to the settlements as a source of inexpensive labor. The prison became the primary experimental site for the colonial plural society and convicts were graduated by race and the labor needed for urban construction. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes investigates how a political system aimed at managing ethnic communities in the larger material context of the colonial urban project was first imagined and tested through the physical segregation of the colonial prison. It relates the story of a city, Singapore, and a contemporary city-state whose plural society has its origins in these historical divisions. A description of the evolution of the ideal plan for a plural city across the three settlements is followed by a detailed look at Singapore’s colonial prison. Chapters trace the prison’s development and its dissolution across the urban landscape through the penal labor system. The author demonstrates the way in which racial politics were inscribed spatially in the division of penal facilities and how the map of the city was reconfigured through convict labor. Later chapters describe penal resistance first through intimate stories of penal life and then through a discussion of organized resistance in festival riots. Eventually, the plural city ideal collapsed into the hegemonic urban form of the citadel, where a quite different military vision of the city became evident. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes is a fascinating and thoroughly original study in urban history and the making of multiethnic society in Singapore. It will compel readers to rethink the ways in which colonial urban history, postcolonial urbanism, and governance have been theorized by scholars and represented by governments.
Author: Ömer Çaha
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-08-11
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1793648050
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author draws attention to the strong state tradition and the pluralistic society that both prevailed in Turkey. He argues that the Turkish state tradition envisages centralization, social cohesion and an obedient political culture. Through the modernization process of the last century, it has tried to change the society from top to down, and built an ideological and unitarian public sphere. However, the transition to multi-party system in 1950 and the liberalization policies that followed in the post-1980s have prepared the ground for different social movements to come into existence in the same public arena. Social movements which developed particularly among Kurds, Alevis and women emphasize social diversity, pluralism, participation, limited authority, freedom and human rights. They, thus, have paved the way for the transformation of the ideological public sphere into a plural and a civil public domain. The author follows the traces of all these developments from the Ottoman Empire to the last decades of the Republican Turkey. Moving from the case of Turkey he makes an important contribution to the literature on various issues such as civil society, public sphere, modernization, democracy, and social movements.
Author: James W. Skillen
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780802848512
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This excellent volume explores three forms of pluralist theory -- those based on historical doctrines of custom and tradition, Catholic doctrines of natural law and subsidiarity, and Calvinist doctrines of sphere sovereignty and creation -- and compares and evaluates each of these forms of pluralism within the context of American thought.