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The term cosmopolitan is increasingly used within different social,
cultural and political settings, including academia, popular media
and national politics. However those who invoke the cosmopolitan
project rarely ask whose experience, understanding, or vision of
cosmopolitanism is being described and for whose purposes? In
response, this volume assembles contributors from different
disciplines and theoretical backgrounds to examine
cosmopolitanism's possibilities, aspirations and applications-as
well as its tensions, contradictions, and discontents-so as to
offer a critical commentary on the vital but often neglected
question: whose cosmopolitanism? The book investigates when, where,
and how cosmopolitanism emerges as a contemporary social process,
global aspiration or emancipatory political project and asks
whether it can serve as a political or methodological framework for
action in a world of conflict and difference.
The term cosmopolitan is increasingly used within different social,
cultural and political settings, including academia, popular media
and national politics. However those who invoke the cosmopolitan
project rarely ask whose experience, understanding, or vision of
cosmopolitanism is being described and for whose purposes? In
response, this volume assembles contributors from different
disciplines and theoretical backgrounds to examine
cosmopolitanism's possibilities, aspirations and applications-as
well as its tensions, contradictions, and discontents-so as to
offer a critical commentary on the vital but often neglected
question: whose cosmopolitanism? The book investigates when, where,
and how cosmopolitanism emerges as a contemporary social process,
global aspiration or emancipatory political project and asks
whether it can serve as a political or methodological framework for
action in a world of conflict and difference.
Beyond text? Critical practices and sensory anthropology is about
the relationship between anthropological understandings of the
world, sensory perception and aesthetic practices. It suggests that
if different sensory experiences embody and facilitate different
kinds of knowledge, then we need to develop new methods and more
creative forms of representation that are not based solely around
text or on correspondence theories of truth. The volume brings
together leading figures in anthropology, visual and sound studies
to explore how knowledge, sensation and embodied experiences can be
researched and represented by combining different visual, aural and
textual forms which it demonstrates through an accompanying DVD.
The book and DVD make an argument for a necessary, critical
development in anthropological ways of knowing that take place not
merely at the level of theory and representation but also through
innovative fieldwork methods and media practices. -- .
The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people
who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death.
Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to
life the lived experiences, imaginative lifeworlds, and existential
concerns of persons confronting their own mortality and non-being.
Encompassing twenty years of working alongside persons living with
HIV/AIDS in New York, Irving documents the radical but often
unspoken and unvoiced transformations in perception, knowledge, and
understanding that people experience in the face of death. By
bringing an "experience-near" ethnographic focus to the streams of
inner dialogue, imagination, and aesthetic expression that are
central to the experience of illness and everyday life, this
monograph offers a theoretical, ethnographic, and methodological
contribution to the anthropology of time, finitude, and the human
condition. With relevance well-beyond the disciplinary boundaries
of anthropology, this book ultimately highlights the challenge of
capturing the inner experience of human suffering and hope that
affect us all of the trauma of the threat of death and the surprise
of continued life.
Anthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary
debates about futures. This game-changing new book presents new
ways of conceptualising how to engage with a future-oriented
research agenda, demonstrating how anthropologists can approach
futures both theoretically and practically, and introducing a set
of innovative research methods to tackle this field of
research.Anthropology and Futures brings together a group of
leading scholars from across the world, including Sarah Pink, Rayna
Rapp, Faye Ginsburg and Paul Stoller. Firmly grounded in
ethnographic fieldwork experience, the book's fifteen chapters
traverse ethnographies with people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda,
disability activists in the U.S., young Muslim women in Copenhagen,
refugees in Milan, future-makers in Barcelona, planning and land
futures in the UK, the design of workspaces in Melbourne, rewilding
in the French Pyrenees, and speculative ethnographies among
emerging communities in Antarctica. Taking a strong
interdisciplinary approach, the authors respond to growing interest
in the topic of futures in anthropology and beyond. This
ground-breaking text is a call for more engaged, interventional and
applied anthropologies. It is essential reading for students and
researchers in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, design
and research methods.
Anthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary
debates about futures. This game-changing new book presents new
ways of conceptualising how to engage with a future-oriented
research agenda, demonstrating how anthropologists can approach
futures both theoretically and practically, and introducing a set
of innovative research methods to tackle this field of
research.Anthropology and Futures brings together a group of
leading scholars from across the world, including Sarah Pink, Rayna
Rapp, Faye Ginsburg and Paul Stoller. Firmly grounded in
ethnographic fieldwork experience, the book's fifteen chapters
traverse ethnographies with people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda,
disability activists in the U.S., young Muslim women in Copenhagen,
refugees in Milan, future-makers in Barcelona, planning and land
futures in the UK, the design of workspaces in Melbourne, rewilding
in the French Pyrenees, and speculative ethnographies among
emerging communities in Antarctica. Taking a strong
interdisciplinary approach, the authors respond to growing interest
in the topic of futures in anthropology and beyond. This
ground-breaking text is a call for more engaged, interventional and
applied anthropologies. It is essential reading for students and
researchers in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, design
and research methods.
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