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Alter-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination
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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.
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Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Ghassan Hage
Published: 02/02/2015
Publisher: Melbourne University
ISBN: 9780522867381
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.38w x 0.57d
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Weight | 0.7 lbs |
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Dimensions | 8.35 × 5.38 × 0.57 in |
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