...John F. Sly 1934 TURNING POINTS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT* "Ober Rosen lasst sick dichten, In die Apfel muss man beissenGoethe. JOHN F. SLY I LOCAL government is the bad land of political science, and the reasons, on the whole, are sufficiently plain. Early in the development of the field...

...David George Davies Local Subsidies for Industry . By Moes John E. . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1962 . Pp. viii , 252 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 154 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Indian Political System. By Norman D...

...Weldon Welfling Southern State and Local Finance Trends and the War . By Martin James W. . Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press , and Lexington, Ky. : University of Kentucky Press , 1945 . Pp. 106 . $0.50 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Books 129...

...R. H. Woody Historical Societies in the United States and Canada: A Handbook . Compiled and edited by Crittenden Christopher , Editor, and Godard Doris , Editorial Associate. Washington, D. C. : The American Association for State and Local History , 1944 . Paper. Pp. xi , 261...

...Prasenjit Duara 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Prasenjit Duara Local Worlds: The Poetics and Politics of the Native Place in Modern China The modern preoccupation with the hometown or native place (guxiang, xiangtu in Chinese...

...Seungsook Moon Since World War II, US military bases have become a global phenomenon and generated complex responses from their “host” societies. For these past six decades, South Korea has functioned as one of the major hubs of the global network of US military bases, yet organized local movements...

...Joseph F. Freeman, III Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 The Reformation of Reform: Arresting the Decline of Local Government Joseph F. Freeman III In 1888, James Bryce wrote that the one conspicuous failure in the American political system was the government of cities...

...Tom Conley Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Tom Conley Friendship in a Local Vein: Montaigne s Servitude to La Bowtie C est cela que certainement le tyran n est ja­ mais ayme ni ayme. L amitie, c est un nom sacre, c est une chose sainte; elle ne se met jamais qu entre gens de...

...Richard S. Wheeler Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 Changing Patterns of Local Government and Administration in Pakistan Richard S. Wheeler Until the bloodless coup of October 7, 1958, broke the threads of continuity with the past, Pakistan s political and administrative...

... engaging questions of liberation led him to devote his life to localizing Marxist theory in the Sudanese context. His explication of the tools of translating Marxism challenges absolutist interpretations and applications of a single idea in a cultural context unfavorable to its growth. This essay draws...

... local space, and intimidating residents. These “gangs” of men were made up of Lebanese Australians, and Cronulla is Anglo-Australian dominated. Ethnic and cultural differences were used as the key markers of who the outsiders were. The demonstration escalated into a riot in which anyone of “Middle...

... are not merely technological infrastructure; they transform social and spatial relations by altering land use, property relations, and patterns of work and consumption. The social history of pipelines is a paradoxical tale of the dispossession of local communities and their often coercive integration into wider...

... of these struggles by the declining rank of socialist state workers was the surge of militant resistance by the new working class in the export sector after China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. Whereas local states and private manufacturers colluded to repress these new workers’ struggles...

..., starting with water services and other local utilities, which would have been obliged to open to private shareholders. The Italian people, on the contrary, answered by coming together to defend the commons, voting en masse in June 2011 at the referendum called by the social movements against...

...Arnab Roy Chowdhury In Myanmar, the Citizenship Law of 1982 made the Rohingya “stateless.” The Rohingya consider Bangladesh a haven and take to the sea on rickety boats to cross borders. If they do, however, they become “illegal migrants.” Considering such laws unjust, local and international NGOs...

...Niels van Doorn; Eva Mos; Jelke Bosma In this article we examine the partnership as a heterogeneous boundary resource that enables platforms to generate dependencies, become locally embedded, and gain power in urban settings. Pushing back against narratives of platform-driven disruption, which tend...

... sector, highlighting the adoption of local norms and traditions. For decades, thousands of casas particulares have hosted exchanges between visitors and the local population. Based on ethnographic data collected in Havana, we contend that the “Airbnb model” was present before the gig economy giant...

... organized social groups; soliciting support from politicians, celebrities, academics, and the media; forging local and international networks; and disregarding antigender, antifeminist reactive counterpublics and avoiding any direct confrontation with them. odanaci@gsu.edu.tr dcatalbas@gsu.edu.tr...

... an increasing backlash against risk management and the (official and unofficial) enforcers of the values of caution, preparedness, and vigilance. Right-wing pundits sneer at the so-called nanny state, and grassroots organizations spearhead protests against state and local laws that they feel to be oppressive...

... cogito but also the Cartesian elevation of abstraction over the senses. In contrast, Kristeva's and Žižek's local histories are expressed through disidentification and self-Orientalization as a constitutive gesture of subaltern intellectual labor. Instead of exploring geopolitical ambiguity...