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.
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.
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.
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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
