Misty L Bastian: 2 books
Transparency and Conspiracy
Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2003
Transparency has, in recent years, become a watchword for good governance. Policymakers and analysts alike evaluate political and economic institutions—courts, corporations, nation-states—according to the transparency of their operating procedures. With the dawn of the New World Order and the...
The Women's War of 1929
Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its various actions within a single, gendered analytical frame.