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Alter-Politics - Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination (Paperback): Ghassan Hage

Alter-Politics - Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination (Paperback)

Ghassan Hage

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This book is a contribution to a long history of critical writing against an increasingly destructive global order marked by an excessive instrumentalisation, exploitation and degradation of the human and non-human environment, and ridden with unacceptable, but also, importantly, avoidable, forms of inequality, injustice and marginalisation. Alter-Politics is concerned with the way anthropological critical writing in particular aims to weave oppositional concerns (anti-politics) with a search for alternatives (alter-politics): alternative economies, alternative modes of inhabiting and relating to the earth, alternative modes of thinking and experiencing otherness. If Alter-Politics privileges alter-politics over oppositional politics, it is not because, as is made clear, the 'alter' moment is more important than the 'anti'. It is because a concern for alter-politics has been less prevalent. The question of 'political passion' is crucial in this conception of the alter-political. For the book argues that it is because radical political passion has been mostly directed towards anti-politics that it has come to dominate over alter-politics. This does not simply mean that political passion needs to be equally directed towards alter-politics. It also means that this passion itself needs to be a radically different kind of political passion once so directed. It is this 'alter-political passion' that Hage strives to create a space for throughout Alter-Politics.

General

Imprint: Academic Monographs
Country of origin: Australia
Release date: February 2015
Authors: Ghassan Hage
Dimensions: 209 x 136 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 978-0-522-86738-1
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN: 0-522-86738-3
Barcode: 9780522867381

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