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001 2015375383
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008 150728s2015 vra b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015375383
020 $a9780522868197 (hardback)
020 $a0522868193 (hardback)
020 $a9780522867381 (paperback)
020 $a0522867383 (paperback)
020 $a9780522867398 (ebook)
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040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aJA76$b.H334 2015
100 1 $aHage, Ghassan,$eauthor.
245 10 $aAlter-politics :$bcritical anthropology and the radical imagination /$cGhassan Hage.
264 1 $aCarlton, Victoria :$bMelbourne University Press,$c2015.
300 $ax, 241 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $aAnnotation.$bThis 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 marginalization. It 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 the book 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 I strive to create a space for throughout the work. - See more at: https://www.mup.com.au/items/153398#sthash.1jJNCsxE.dpuf.
650 0 $aPolitical sociology.
650 0 $aPolitical science$xAnthropological aspects.
650 0 $aPolitical psychology.
650 0 $aAnthropology.