Title & Author:

The future as cultural fact : essays on the global condition / Arjun Appadurai.

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso Books, 2013.
©2013

Description:

viii, 328 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-315) and index.
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 fathers's nation : reflictions 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.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781844679829 paperback
1844679829 paperback
9781844679836 hardback
1844679837 hardback

Subject:

Globalization.
Globalization India.
Globalization Economic aspects.
Globalization Social aspects.
Poor India Mumbai Social conditions.
Anthropology.
Future, The.
globalizáció szociológia
Mondialisation.
Mondialisation Inde.
Mondialisation Aspect social.
Pauvres Inde Mumbai Conditions sociales.
Anthropologie.
Futur.
globalism.
anthropology.
Poor Social conditions
Social conditions
Globalisierung
Armut
Kultur
Sozialstruktur
Verstädterung
Moderne
Sozialer Wandel
Internationalisatie.
Mumbai (India) Social conditions 21st century.
India globalizáció
India Mumbai
India
Indien

Added entries:

Appadurai, Arjun, 1949- author.

Essays on the global condition

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282535
Call No.: BIB 220169
Status: Available