Indirect Rule and Varieties of Governance

Naseemullah, Adnan; Staniland, Paul

doi:10.1111/gove.12129

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“…Naseemullah and Staniland, 2014). This study contributes to the growing evidence in South Asia that these forms of rule can both successfully adapt to contextual shifts and prove resilient to external interventions.…”

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When a participatory slum sanitation project encounters urban informality: The case of the Greater Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Dijk

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Shivtare³

2016

International Area Studies Review

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This paper traces what happens to the official process and objectives of a participatory slum sanitation project, the Nirmal Mumbai Metropolitan Region Abhiyan, when non-governmental organizations (NGOs) encounter informalized municipal administration. We do this by describing the implementation phase from the points of view of the actors involved in two cities within the region, analysing them in terms of contraventions and non-enforcement of official objectives and regulations and then relating it back to discussions about both participatory slum sanitation and informality and municipal administration in India. In this case, elected councillors' territoriality over slums, plus the coordinated actions among them, municipal officials and local contractors undermined the declared physical and social objectives of these programmes. In fact, NGOs quickly began following the rules and practices of informalized municipal administration. These findings are significant for those working on improving basic urban services because where incumbent actors in municipal governance can coordinate to undermine programmes, or alter them to their relative advantage, then participatory development programmes (as currently organized) lack fitness for purpose. This paper also contributes to debates on municipal governance in India by focusing on how political mediators, in this case ward councillors' bending or breaking of formal regulations and protocols and the municipal officials' non-enforcement together, informalized the municipal administration of this project.

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When a participatory slum sanitation project encounters urban informality: The case of the Greater Mumbai Metropolitan Region

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2016

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“…This devolution of power can be explained by limited resources, poor policy planning, and a rapidly increasing population resulting from rural to urban migration and displacement caused by conflict. Some have suggested that this hands-off approach to governance is a post-colonial legacy of indirect rule 34 and (or) a continuity of the criminal-cum-political strongmen of British India who worked as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled. 35 As in many regions of the world, historical legacies shape both political developments and the nature of crime.…”

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Karachi: Organized Crime in a Key Megacity

Hussain¹,

Shelley²

2016

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Crime and terror groups are key non-state actors in Karachi and employ crime and violence to achieve political and economic gains. They have a different relationship with the state than crime groups in Italy where the state has more resources to share with the crime groups. Instead, much more complex relationships exist between the state and the non-state actors in this difficult environment where crime and terror groups have become a part of diffuse governance of the city, including provision of housing and water.Our analysis differs from others who suggest that crime and terror groups have stepped into a power void. We suggest that the political parties rather than the crime and terror groups are at the forefront of violent and criminalized politics. Therefore, violent non-state actors are not the ultimate arbiters of the political order. Crime and terror groups remain vulnerable as they may lose the state's support and without this they face difficulty surviving in this highly competitive environment.

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“…Naseemullah and Staniland (2014) note that state governance is highly uneven in post-colonial settings, often utilizing forms of indirect rule via informal and non-state actors.…”

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Security Provision and Political Formation in Hybrid Orders

Lawrence¹

2017

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The security sector reform literature is increasingly turning towards the inclusion of non-state security providers, but the long-term patterns of political development to which such engagement might contribute remain underexplored. This article thus provides several lenses with which to understand the relationship between non-state security provision and political development. It first presents three perspectives (functionalism, political economy, and communitarianism) with which to understand the nature and behavior of non-state security providers. Second, it outlines five possible long-term trajectories of political formation and the role of non-state security providers in each. These discussions highlight the idea of hybridity, and the remainder of the paper argues that the concept can be usefully applied in (at least) two ways. The third section proposes that hybridity can help overcome longstanding but misleading conceptual binaries, while the fourth rearticulates hybridity as a dynamic developmental process -hybridization -that can be contrasted with security politics as the underlying logic by which security providers (both state and non-state) interact and change over time.

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Indirect Rule and Varieties of Governance

Cited by 33 publications

References 46 publications

When a participatory slum sanitation project encounters urban informality: The case of the Greater Mumbai Metropolitan Region

When a participatory slum sanitation project encounters urban informality: The case of the Greater Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Karachi: Organized Crime in a Key Megacity

Security Provision and Political Formation in Hybrid Orders

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