Future As Cultural Fact Essays on the Global Condition

Name: Future As Cultural Fact Essays on the Global Condition
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ISBN: 9781844679829

ISBN-10: 1844679829

ISBN-13: 9781844679829

Edition: 2013

Authors: Arjun Appadurai

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This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large (1996), 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 first-hand 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…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 3/12/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.22" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Moving Geographies



Commodities and the Politics of Value



How Histories Make Geographies: Circulation and Context in a Global Perspective



The Morality of Refusal



The Offending Part: Sacrifice and Ethnocide in the Era of Globalization



In My Father's Nation: Reflections on Biography, Memory, Family



The View from Mumbai



Housing and Hope



Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai



Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics



The Capacity to Aspire: Culture and the Terms of Recognition



Cosmopolitanism from Below: Some Ethical Lessons from the Slums of Mumbai



Making the Future



The Spirit of Weber



The Ghost in the Financial Machine



The Social Life of Design



Research as a Human Right



The Future as Cultural Fact


Bibliography


Index