Arjun Appadurai: 13 books
Nalini Malani & Arjun Appadurai
Die Moral der Verweigerung (dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 023)
Language: German
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Arjun Appadurai reflektiert in seiner Abhandlung den Stellenwert der Ideen Gandhis zur Gewaltlosigkeit als Form politischen Handelns in Indien und verfolgt die These, dass sein Denken und seine Praktiken eine doppelte Genealogie aufweisen. Während die eine Genealogie in Beziehung zu indischen Vorstellungen...
Banking on Words
The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008—while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking—was, ultimately, a failure of language. To prove this...
L'oltre e l'altro
Sette variazioni sul viaggio
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 7, 2014
L’uomo è un essere errante, naturalmente predisposto a conoscere il mondo. E a raccontarlo. Per questo, l’incontro con l’altro, il confronto con il diverso, sono spesso snodi cruciali per una società. Per questo, in ogni epoca la letteratura – da Omero a Marco Polo a Ryszard Kapuscinski...
Fear of Small Numbers
An Essay on the Geography of Anger
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2006
The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic...
Sicuri da morire
La violenza nell’epoca della globalizzazione
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 13, 2018
Come mai il processo di globalizzazione non ha spalancato le porte a un mondo più giusto e pacifico, ma sembra piuttosto aver liberato forze oscure che in Iugoslavia, in Iraq, nelle repubbliche dell’Asia centrale, in India, in Ruanda hanno portato gli uomini a parossismi di violenza quasi inimmaginabili?...
Writing Religion
The Case for the Critical Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
In 2002, the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflecting on issues of wide relevance to scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Writing...
by Zygmunt Bauman, Donatella della Porta, Nancy Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization....
The Republic of Therapy
Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen...
Bodies of Work
Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States. Its rise as a leading producer of steel, glass, and coal was fueled by machine technology and mass immigration, developments that fundamentally changed the industrial workplace. Because Pittsburgh’s...
The Afterlife of Images
Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
In 1739 China’s emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backwardness of...
Appetites
Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2002
Judith Farquhar’s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily...
A Colonial Lexicon
Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the “colonial encounter” paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation,...
Feeding Anorexia
Gender and Power at a Treatment Center
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2003
Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of treatments at a state-of-the-art hospital program, Helen Gremillion reveals how the therapies participate unwittingly in culturally dominant ideals of gender,...