This work relates the stories of four leaders under the very different political regimes of colonial, Nationalist and Communist. The authors compare Chinese notions of respect and inspiration with their equivalents in other religious and political histories of colonial and post-colonial modernity, thereby producing a thorough re-working of the idea of charisma. The result is a study of the relationship between religious and political authority in a changing world.
This work relates the stories of four leaders under the very different political regimes of colonial, Nationalist and Communist. The authors compare C...
To make a place is to create a location where its creators can feel they belong. Processes of place-making are still very much ongoing today. Geographers, sociologists, political scientists and philosophers of advanced capitalism have said that place is a localisation of the global. However, the creation of a place is not legible from such grand perspectives. It is also much more creative than can be predicted by translating large-scale processes into local cultures.
Anthropologists have been sensitive to the intimate, tragic and lyrical senses of local place. But their theorising...
To make a place is to create a location where its creators can feel they belong. Processes of place-making are still very much ongoing today. Geogr...
