
The Future as Cultural Fact
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Alongside a discussion of these wider debates, Appadurai situates India at the heart of his work, offering writing based on firsthand research among urban slum dwellers in Mumbai, in which he examines their struggle to achieve equity, recognition and self-governance in conditions of extreme inequality.
Finally, in his work on design, planning, finance and poverty, Appadurai embraces the "politics of hope" and lays the foundations for a revitalized, and urgent, anthropology of the future.
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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: Moving Geographies
- Chapter One: Commodities and the Politics of Value
- Chapter Two: How Histories Make Geographies: Circulation and Context in a Global Perspective
- Chapter Three: The Morality of Refusal
- Chapter Four: The Offending Part: Sacrifice and Ethnocide in the Era of Globalization
- Chapter Five: In My Father's Nation: Reflections on Biography, Memory, Family
- Part II: The View from Mumbai
- Chapter Six: Housing and Hope
- Chapter Seven: Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai
- Chapter Eight: Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics
- Chapter Nine: The Capacity to Aspire: Culture and the Terms of Recognition
- Chapter Ten: Cosmopolitanism from Below: Some Ethical Lessons from the Slums of Mumbai
- Part III: Making the Future
- Chapter Eleven: The Spirit of Weber
- Chapter Twelve: The Ghost in the Financial Machine
- Chapter Thirteen: The Social Life of Design
- Chapter Fourteen: Research as a Human Right
- Chapter Fifteen: The Future as Cultural Fact
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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