Words and Worlds (eBook, PDF)

A Lexicon for Dark Times
Redaktion: Veena Das, Das

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Produktbeschreibung

Born in a time of anxiety, Words and Worlds examines some of the disquieting challenges that societies now face. Through an inquiry into a political lexicon of commonsense words, ranging from democracy and revolution to knowledge and authority, from inequality and toleration to war and power, the contributors to this book trouble the self-evidence of these terms, bringing into view the hidden transcripts and unexpected trajectories of many settled ideas, such as the human sense of belonging or the call for openness and transparency in research and public life. The case studies conducted over five continents with the tools of eight different disciplines challenge the ethnocentric assumptions, false moralism, and cultural prejudices that underlie much discussion on corruption or even the virtue invested in resilience. The critique of the ubiquitous use of crisis to characterize our times shows how this framing obscures the unjust conditions of existence and the violence of everyday life. Together the essays in this volume offer a fresh look at the deeply connected worlds we inhabit in solidarity and in discord.Contributors. Banu Bargu, Veena Das, Alex de Waal, Didier Fassin, Peter Geschiere, Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Caroline Humphrey, Ravi Kanbur, Julieta Lemaitre, Uday S. Mehta, Jan-Werner Muller, Jonathan Pugh, Elizabeth F. Sanders, Todd Sanders

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478021476
• Artikelnr.: 66282528

Autorenporträt

Veena Das and Didier Fassin, editors

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