Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Bøger
Bestsellers
Kommer snart
Nyheder
Spil og hobby
Hjem
Kategorier
Bestsellers
Kommer snart
Nyheder
FAQ
Konto
Kontakt
Kurv
  1. Bog
  2. Antropologi
  3. Social- & Kulturantropologi

Slum Acts

Af: Veena Das Engelsk Paperback

Slum Acts

Af: Veena Das Engelsk Paperback
Tjek vores konkurrenters priser
This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long-term ethnography in these spaces, this book provides a detailed analysis of the institutions of the state, particularly of policing and law in India. It argues that catastrophic events at the national level and the techniques of governance through which they are handled secrete forms of knowing that get embedded into the nooks and crannies of everyday life, eroding trust, sowing suspicions, and leading to an exhaustion of capacity for care. Yet the paths to survival honed within these spaces generate critique that compels us to ask how punishment and torture become routinized in democracies. Following the paths of those who struggle with these questions in these neighborhoods, the book finds that deep philosophical questions, such as the inhuman as a possibility of the human rather than its boundary, arise in the weaves of these lives and are experienced as a dimension of the social. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in anthropology and throughout the social sciences and humanities.
Vis mere
Tjek vores konkurrenters priser
Normalpris
kr 193
Fragt: 39 kr
6 - 8 hverdage
20 kr
Pakkegebyr
God 4 anmeldelser på
Tjek vores konkurrenters priser
This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long-term ethnography in these spaces, this book provides a detailed analysis of the institutions of the state, particularly of policing and law in India. It argues that catastrophic events at the national level and the techniques of governance through which they are handled secrete forms of knowing that get embedded into the nooks and crannies of everyday life, eroding trust, sowing suspicions, and leading to an exhaustion of capacity for care. Yet the paths to survival honed within these spaces generate critique that compels us to ask how punishment and torture become routinized in democracies. Following the paths of those who struggle with these questions in these neighborhoods, the book finds that deep philosophical questions, such as the inhuman as a possibility of the human rather than its boundary, arise in the weaves of these lives and are experienced as a dimension of the social. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in anthropology and throughout the social sciences and humanities.
Vis mere
Se mere i:
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 160
ISBN-13: 9781509537860
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1509537864
Kategori: Social- & Kulturantropologi
Udg. Dato: 25 feb 2022
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 214mm
Højde: 138mm
Forlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Oplagsdato: 25 feb 2022
Forfatter(e): Veena Das
Forfatter(e) Veena Das

Kategori Social- & Kulturantropologi

ISBN-13 9781509537860

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 160

Udgave

Længde 19mm

Bredde 214mm

Højde 138mm

Udg. Dato 25 feb 2022

Oplagsdato 25 feb 2022

Forlag John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Vi anbefaler også
Rosamunde Pilcher Vejen hjem
Vejen hjem
Rosamunde Pilcher
66 kr
Kategori sammenhænge