Shedding light on administrative rule so prevalent in the Global North via an examination of its implementation in the Global South, Prem Kumar Rajaram expertly demonstrates that 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.
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Introduction 1. Ruling the Margins 2. Class and the Colonial City: The Production and Administration of Kuala Lumpur 3. Of Law and Land: Producing Peasants and Landlords in Bengal 4. Representing the Margins: Colonial Art and Photographs in the Service of Depoliticisation 5. Mapping Iraq: Publics, Experts, Politics 6. "The State Needs to Protect Itself": Acts of Citizenship by Asylum-seekers in Hungary 7. Spaces of Hope: Rethinking the Purposes of Citizenship
