Unmasking the state : politics, society and economy in Guyana 1992-2015 / edited by Arif Bulkan and D. Alissa Trotz. PRINT

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Constitutional architecture and the production of authoritarianism / Arif Bulkan -- Guyana's public financial management systems in the post-independence period / Amand Goolsarran -- Uncontested democratic spaces : the politics and practice of local government in post-independence Guyana, 1992-2015 / Esther M. McIntosh -- Politics and underdevelopment : the case of Guyana / Tarron Khemraj -- Crime, ethnicity and the political impasse in Guyana / Rishee S. Thakur -- Between despair and hope : towards an analysis of women and violence in comtemporary Guyana / D, Alissa Troitz -- Race, ideology and international relations : sovereignty and the disciplining of Guyana's working class / Percy C. Hintzen -- Local impact of global change : rice and sugar int he history and memory of Africans and East Indians in Guyana / Wazir Mohamed -- Poverty and human security in Guyana / Clement Henry -- The myth of free education / Diana Abraham -- Growing downhill? : contestations of sovereignty and the creation of itinerant workers in Guayanese call centres / Alissa Trotz, Kran Mirchandandi and Iman Khan -- Consolidation and implications of discretionary rule over Guyana's public forests, 1992-2015 / Janette Bulkan -- Madness, myth and masquerade : cultural patrimony and violence against disabled women in Guyana / Savitiri Persadie -- "Push Ya' Body" : imaginarities of the "Bush" and the Amerindian body in the Guyanese stte / Shanya Cordis -- Lenses of hope : investing the social economy as a paradigmatic shift through the Wowetta women's agro-processing cassava enterprise / Hollis France -- Inudated with facts : flooding the knowledge economies of climate adaptation in Guyana / Sarah E. Vaughn -- Journeying towards LGBTQ equality in Guyana / Vidyaratha Kissoon.

"Guyana, a former British colony, obtained independence in 1966, following the collapse of a multi-racial nationalist movement and instability fomented by the US and UK governments. Standard political economy and historical analyses of post-independence Guyana tend to focus on the period of authoritarian rule under the People's National Congress party, and the introduction of an IMF-supervised economic recovery programme. The analyses rarely go beyond the return to formal electoral democracy in 1992. Unmasking the State fills a critical gap in our understanding of the last three decades of Guyanese political, economic, social and cultural life under the People's Progressive Party in the context of evolving regional and global geopolitical realities".