212 research outputs found

    Moving beyond European and Latin American Typologies:The Peculiarities of AKP’s Populism in Turkey

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    Despite the growing literature on Turkish populism, there is yet no consensus on how best to categorise the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi or AKP). This article argues that this lack of consensus is due to a selective focus on the attributes of AKP’s populism. Indeed, when the party’s features are examined holistically, it does not neatly conform to the dominant typologies of populism, which were conceived mostly for European and Latin American examples. For historical reasons, AKP’s populist discourse defines “the people” versus “the elite” in civilisational terms and combines this with strategies of neo-liberalism, strong party organisation and grassroots mobilisation. This blend of populism distinguishes the AKP case from the exclusionary/inclusionary and classical/neo-liberal/radical typologies previously identified by the literature. However, the Bharatiya Janata Party in India and the Thai Rak Thai Party in Thailand have similar attributes to the AKP, drawing attention to the need to move beyond the existing ideological and strategic approaches to populism and towards a more comprehensive socio-cultural approach. The article contributes to the literature on populism by highlighting possible avenues for further research based on such a comprehensive understanding of populism based also on cases from Asia

    Waiting for the state: gender, citizenship and everyday encounters with bureaucracy in India

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    This article focuses on practices and meanings of time and waiting experienced by poor, low-class Dalits and Muslims in their routine encounters with the state in India. Drawing on ethnographic research from Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh, it presents experiences of waiting around queuing and applying for paperwork, cards, and welfare schemes, in order to examine the role of temporal processes in the production of citizenship and citizen agency. An analysis of various forms of waiting – ‘on the day’, ‘to and fro’, and ‘chronic’ waiting – reveals how temporal processes operate as mechanisms of power and control through which state actors and other mediators produce differentiated forms of citizenship and citizens. Temporal processes and their material outcomes, we argue, are shaped by class, caste and religion, while also drawing on – and reproducing – gendered identities and inequalities. However, rather than being ‘passive’ patients of the state, we show how ordinary people draw on money, patronage networks and various performative acts in an attempt to secure their rights as citizens of India

    Contract Farming, Ecological Change and the Transformations of Reciprocal Gendered Social Relations in Eastern India

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    Debates on gender and the commodification of land highlight the loss of land rights, intensification of demands on women’s labour, and decline in their decision-making control. Supported by ‘extra-economic forces’ of religious nationalism (Hindutva), such neoliberal interventions are producing new gender ideologies involving a subtle shift from relations of reciprocity to those of subordination. Using data from fine grained fieldwork in Koraput district, Odisha, we analyse the tensions and transformations created jointly by corporate interventions (contract farming of eucalyptus by the paper industry) and religious nationalism in the local landscape. We examine how these phenomena are reshaping relations of asymmetric mutuality between nature and society, and between men and women

    Women candidates and party nomination trends in India: evidence from the 2009 general election

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    More women MPs than ever before were elected to the lower house of the national parliament of India in the 2009 General Election. Yet, the increase in women’s presence in the Lok Sabha cannot necessarily be attributed to the increased willingness of political parties to field more women candidates, despite rhetorical party political support for increasing women’s participation in political institutions. This article analyses party political nomination of women as candidates in the 2009 election, and finds significant variations in levels of nomination across parties and across India’s states. The article also examines in detail the nomination of female candidates by the two largest political parties, the Indian National Congress party and the Bharatiya Janata Party, both of which support proposals for introducing reserved seats for women in national and state legislatures. The findings reject the proposition that parties only nominate women in unwinnable seats, but finds support for the proposition that parties are risk averse when it comes to nominating women, and that this can restrict the number of women nominated for election. The article concludes with some further questions for future research on gender and political recruitment in India

    Quel rÎle peut-on imputer aux banques à charte canadiennes dans la transmission des chocs monétaires des années quatre-vingt?

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    Cette recherche s’inscrit dans la foulĂ©e de nombreux travaux entrepris suite aux publications de Bernanke et Blinder (1988, 1992) ayant remis Ă  l’avant-plan le rĂŽle jouĂ© par le systĂšme bancaire dans la transmission de la politique monĂ©taire. Nous proposons d’examiner la dynamique inhĂ©rente Ă  certains postes du bilan des banques Ă  charte canadiennes suite aux mouvement des principaux taux d’intĂ©rĂȘt, habituellement jugĂ©s rĂ©vĂ©lateurs des conditions monĂ©taires du moment. Pour ce faire, nous avons recours Ă  un modĂšle VAR hebdomadaire comportant Ă  la fois, des Ă©lĂ©ments de l’actif et du passif des banques ainsi que les taux de rendement associĂ©s Ă  divers instruments financiers. Cependant, dans le but de bien encadrer cette analyse, nous dĂ©veloppons un modĂšle formel du comportement d’une banque oĂč les seuls changements aux postes de son bilan suite aux mouvements de taux d’intĂ©rĂȘt sont dictĂ©s par des ajustements de portefeuille visant Ă  tirer avantage des Ă©carts se creusant entre ceux-ci. Ce modĂšle thĂ©orique est soumis aux variations de taux d’intĂ©rĂȘt issues du modĂšle empirique VAR. Les mouvements observĂ©s aux postes du bilan de cette banque « tĂ©moin » fournissent un guide utile permettant d’interprĂ©ter de façon Ă©clairĂ©e les rĂ©sultats empiriques obtenus. À cet Ă©gard, l’exercice proposĂ© montre qu’il est possible d’établir un parallĂšle assez Ă©troit entre l’évolution des postes du bilan de la banque hypothĂ©tique et celle captĂ©e par le modĂšle VAR et ainsi apporte un certain support Ă  l’approche traditionnelle sur le rĂŽle jouĂ© par les banques dans la transmission des chocs monĂ©taires.This paper can be seen as a contribution to a growing literature initiated by Bernanke and Blinder (1988, 1992) which have examined the role played by the banking system in the transmission of monetary policy. We propose to study the dynamic behaviour of the balance sheet of Canadian chartered banks following a shock to some key interest rates which are good indicators of the prevailing monetary conditions. More specifically, we estimate a weekly VAR model which comprises key asset and liabilities elements as well as rates of return on major financial instruments. However, to guide this empirical inquiry, we set up a model of a representative bank which adjusts its balance sheet elements according to the interest rate spreads arising in the financial markets. This theoretical model is then subjected to the same interest rate shocks than those imposed on the VAR model: the adjustments observed in this laboratory will prove quite useful to assess the significance of the empirical results uncovered by the VAR model. Overall, we find that both approaches give rise to quite similar dynamic responses which tends to support the traditional role of the banking sector in the transmission of monetary policy

    The “untouchable” who touched millions: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Navayana Buddhism, and complexity in social work scholarship on religion

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    Dr. B. R. Ambedkar was a twentieth century socio-political and religious reformer whose activities impacted millions of lives, especially among India’s Dalit community. This article illustrates his lifework and its lessons for social work scholarship on religion. Using the examples of Ambedkar and Navayana Buddhism, I discuss three sources of complexity for social work scholarship on religion: 1) religion may function as both oppressive and emancipatory; 2) religion is malleable, not monolithic; and 3) religion is situated in and interactive with contexts. I conclude with suggestions for how social work scholarship on religion may account for complexity

    The fantasy of the populist disease and the educational cure

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    The populist turn has produced contrasting conceptions of education. Research suggests that individuals educated to university level are unlikely to support populist discourses. Related to this, populism is often understood as a social illness – a disease – that needs to be addressed through education – its cure. In contrast, this article argues that both the populist and the anti-populist discourses are fantasies that utilise education as an ideological grip. In the populist fantasy, education is perceived as being ideologically controlled by the elite. In the anti-populist fantasy, education is seen as being inherently emancipatory, liberating us from irrationalism and economic inequality. The paper concludes not by showing how these ideological alternatives might be reconciled but by suggesting that we can only proceed by creating new discursive landscapes where emancipatory education can be understood differently
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