Name: Slum Acts (After the Postcolonial) (en Inglés)
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Author: Veena Das
ISBN: 9781509537860

portada Slum Acts (After the Postcolonial) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Polity Press

Autor

Veena Das

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

160

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781509537860

N° edición

Categorías

Materia antropología social y cultural etnográfica

Slum Acts (After the Postcolonial) (en Inglés)

Veena Das (Autor) · Polity Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Slum Acts (After the Postcolonial) (en Inglés)"

This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long term ethnography in these spaces, this book provides a detailed analysis of the institutions of the state, particularly of policing and law in India. It argues that catastrophic events at the national level and the techniques of governance through which they are handled secrete forms of knowing that get embedded into the nooks and crannies of everyday life, eroding trust, sowing suspicions, and leading to an exhaustion of capacity for care. Yet the paths to survival honed within these spaces generate critique that compels us to ask how punishment and torture become routinized in democracies. Following the paths of those who struggle with these questions in these neighborhoods, the book finds that deep philosophical questions, such as the inhuman as a possibility of the human rather than its boundary, arise in the weaves of these lives and are experienced as a dimension of the social. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in anthropology and throughout the social sciences and humanities.