Words and Worlds

A Lexicon for Dark Times
Herausgeber: Das, Veena

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The contributors to Words and Worlds examine the state of politics and the political imaginary within contemporary societies by taking up the everyday words such as democracy, revolution, and populism that we use to understand the political present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781478014164
• ISBN-10: 1478014164
• Artikelnr.: 60003840

Autorenporträt

Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. She is the author of several books, including Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein. Didier Fassin is James D. Wolfensohn Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Professor to the Annual Chair in Public Health at the Collège de France. He is the author of various books, including Life: A Critical User's Manual.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction: From Words to Worlds / Didier Fassin and Veena Das  1
1. Knowledge / Veena Das  19
2. Democracy / Jan-Werner Müller  39
3. Authority / Banu Bargu  61
4. Belonging / Peter Geschiere  83
5. Toleration / Uday S. Mehta  103
6. Power / Alex De Waal  123
7. War / Julieta Lemaitre  143
8. Revolution / Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi  166
9. Corruption / Caroline Humphery  185
10. Openness / Todd Sanders and Elizabeth F. Sanders  205
11. Resilience / Jonathan Pugh  225
12. Inequality / Ravi Kanbur  243
13. Crisis / Didier Fassin  261
Bibliography  277
Contributors  299
Index  303