Buddhism and Constitutions in Bhutan
Book Chapter
Whitecross, R. (2014)
Buddhism and Constitutions in Bhutan. In Buddhism and Law: An Introduction, (350-367). Cambridge University Press
Introduction The subject of Buddhism and constitutionalism, or more specifically constitutions, presents us with a series of questions and challenges. As the other essays in t...
Keeping the Stream of Justice Clear and Pure: the Buddhicization of Bhutanese Law
Book Chapter
Whitecross, R. (2009)
Keeping the Stream of Justice Clear and Pure: the Buddhicization of Bhutanese Law. In A. Griffiths, K. von Benda-Beckmann, & F. von Benda-Beckmann (Eds.), The Power of Law in a Transnational World: Anthropological Enquiries (199-215). Berghahn Books
No abstract available.
Separating Religions and Politics? Buddhism and the Bhutanese Constitution
Book Chapter
Whitecross, R. (2013)
Separating Religions and Politics? Buddhism and the Bhutanese Constitution. In A. K. Thiruvengadam, V. Raghavan, & S. Khilnani (Eds.), Comparative Constitutionalism in South Asia (116-144). Oxford University Press
This chapter investigates Bhutan's constitutional history up to the 2008 Constitution. It specifically reflects on the relationship between Buddhism, the new Constitution, and...
Migrants, Settlers and Refugees: Law and the Contestation of Citizenship in Bhutan
Book Chapter
Whitecross, R. (2009)
Migrants, Settlers and Refugees: Law and the Contestation of Citizenship in Bhutan. In K. von Benda-Beckmann, & F. von Benda-Beckmann (Eds.), Spatializing Law: An Anthropological Geography of Law in Society (57-74). Routledge
No abstract available.
Intimacy, Loyalty and State Formation: The Spectre of the "Anti-National"
Book
Whitecross, R. (2010)
Intimacy, Loyalty and State Formation: The Spectre of the "Anti-National". In Kelly, T. & Thiranagama, S. (Eds.). Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State Building, 68-88. Penn State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4213-3
On 19 April 1998, the Tiger’s Nest temple, in Taktshang, near Paro in western Bhutan, caught fire and was substantially destroyed. The destruction of this major Buddhist pilgr...
Text and Context in the Discourses of the Third Way in Germany and the United Kingdom A Comparative Study of the Language of ‘New Labour’ and ‘Die Neue Mitte’
Thesis
Kranert, M. Text and Context in the Discourses of the Third Way in Germany and the United Kingdom A Comparative Study of the Language of ‘New Labour’ and ‘Die Neue Mitte’. (Thesis)
University College London. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/402527
This thesis undertakes a comparison of the discursive strategies of New Labour and the German SPD at the turn of the twenty-first century, when both parties engaged in a disco...