The Future as Cultural Fact
Essays on the Global Condition
Published on 5. May 2020
336 pages
978-1-78960-191-6 (ISBN)
Description
This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years' research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai takes a broad analytical look at the genealogies of the present era of globalization through essays on violence, commodification, nationalism, terror and materiality.
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.
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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Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78960-191-6 (9781789601916)
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Arjun Appadurai is Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. He is the author of many books and articles, including Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization; The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective; and Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger.
Content
- 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
