The branching-plot principle is applied in this epilogue, in which the reader gets to make a series of decisions pertaining to sickness benefit cases in the municipal job center. Through the epilogue, the reader gains some hands-on experience of the reality his/her employees and co-workers face. This might make him/her more empathetic to their complaints and see that tiresome as complaints may be, there resides an enormous organizational potential in listening to the structures they portray. The validity of the epilogue as a piece of academic rather than fictional writing rests on a close commitment to the empirical data. Each situation described in this story did take place in November 2009. Each decision has been made by one of the municipal caseworkers.

Among white women in colonial India, it was the female missionaries who undoubtedly participated most closely in the colonial 'civilising mission'. This chapter examines the role of European female evangelicals in their zenana encounters in colonial Bengal. It looks at representations of zenana visitation in missionary writings as a cross-cultural encounter, examining the type of female education and proselytising that was adopted. In pursuit of their 'civilising mission', missionaries entered the zenanas and turned a critical 'colonial gaze' upon their inhabitants, representing them in their prolific writings as abject and oppressed, and reinforcing negative colonial constructions about them. The chapter focuses on two 'missionary novels': Hannah Catherine Mullens' Faith and Victory: A Story of the Progress of Christianity in Bengal and Mary Leslie's The Dawn of Light: A Story of the Zenana Mission.

The first chapter maps the wide, decentralised youth infrastructure of the League of Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia (SSOJ) as a form of public space which accommodated both mainstream and ‘alternative’ politics and cultures, outlining some of the major debates which occurred within its strictly speaking political/institutional core, as well as in its peripheral sites, i.e. its media and cultural realms. It also offers an overview of the history of the institutional youth sphere, focussing on certain crucial events, such as the events of 1968 and the 1974 reorganisation of the youth organisation which resulted in the disappearance of the Student Union(s) as separate body. It shows how a process of negotiating new forms of youth activism (in the youth press), of questioning of inherited traditions and creating venues for democratisation of the youth organisation were made possible by the advancement of a new young political, media and cultural elite which generally sought to target the malfunctions of the system and undermine dogmatic socialism.

The introduction sets the context for the issues to be examined in the book. It outlines the nature of the debates on prisoner enfranchisement and details each of the chapters to be considered throughout the book. It argues that prisoner enfranchisement must be examined in a wider social, historical and political framework.