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UNINA9910460030703321 |
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Autore |
Cai Yongshun |
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State and Agents in China [[electronic resource] ] : Disciplining Government Officials |
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Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2014 |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Misconduct in office - China |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Acknowledgments -- One. Introduction -- Two. Government officials’ malfeasance in china -- Three. The politics of disciplining government officials -- Four. Disciplining officials for duty-related malfeasance -- Five. Punishing corrupt agents -- Six. The politics of blame avoidance -- Seven. Reform-minded officials, state tolerance, and institutional change -- Eight. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Appendix 3.1: collection of 111 cases of media exposure -- Appendix 3.2: collection of 133 cases of officials’ duty-related malfeasance -- Appendix 4.1: cases of the disciplining of cadres in conflict management -- Appendix 5.1: cases of the disciplining of 1,012 officials -- Appendix 5.2 Cases of high-ranking officials given serious legal punishment (n = 41) -- Notes -- Index |
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Chinese government officials have played a crucial role in China's economic development, but they are also responsible for severe problems, including environmental pollution, violation of citizens' rights, failure in governance, and corruption. How does the Chinese Party-state respond when a government official commits a duty-related malfeasance or criminal activity? And how does it balance the potential political costs of disciplining its own agents versus the loss of legitimacy in tolerating their misdeeds? State and Agents in China explores how the party-state addresses this dilemma, uncover... |
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UNINA9910781573503321 |
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Autore |
Rajan V. G. Julie |
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Women suicide bombers : narratives of violence / / V.G. Julie Rajan |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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1-136-76020-2 |
9786613250087 |
1-283-25008-X |
1-136-76021-0 |
0-203-82183-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (401 p.) |
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Critical terrorism studies |
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Women suicide bombers |
Women terrorists |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Women Suicide Bombers Narratives of violence; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The phenomenon of women bombers; Suicide bombing 101; Colonialism and the global divide; Violence, commodification, and global politics; Femininity, violence, and agency; Narrating women bombers: negotiated by and negotiating violence; Chapter overview; Methodology, challenges, and reflections; 1 Mad, suicidal, and mentally challenged; The "native" Other: race, religion, and terrorism; Deviance: the woman condition; Women bombers: madness and monstrosity; Abnormal and suicidal |
Unaware and mentally inept2 The female body: Sexuality, disease, and contagion; Voice, visibility, and jouissance; Female sexuality = political agency; The Third World woman: body, pop culture, and the femme fatale; Sexual orientations: transexuals and cross-dressers; Contagion and sexual borders: white women, conversion, and terrorism; 3 "The Woman Question": Women bombers as victims; "The Woman Question": imperial productions of femininity; Veiled and silenced: victimizing Muslim women; Raped and coerced; Honor and redemption; Poor and uneducated |
4 Fabricating the female martyr: The Palestinian caseHistoric anti- |
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colonial nationalisms; Modern anti-state nationalisms; Women in rebel nations, and women rebels; The Palestinian case; 5 Mothers and the nation; Mother-as-nation: anti-colonial nationalism; Mothers and martyrs; Rebel projections of mother-and-child; The Western lens: defining the moral maternal; Disturbing mother figures; Pregnancy, mimicry, and in-between; Challenges and critiques; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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This book offers an evaluation of female suicide bombers through postcolonial, Third World, feminist, and human-rights framework, drawing on case studies from conflicts in Palestine, Sri Lanka, and Chechnya, among others.Women Suicide Bombers explores why cultural, media and political reports from various geographies present different information about and portraits of the same women suicide bombers. The majority of Western media and sovereign states engaged in wars against groups deploying bombings tend to focus on women bombers' abnormal mental conditions; their phy |
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