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Slum Acts
Taschenbuch von Veena Das
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Catastrophic Event: Enduring Inordinate Knowledge

Chapter 3: The Dispersed Body of the Police and Fictions of the Law

Chapter 4: Detecting the Human: Under Which Skies Do We Theorize?

Chapter 5: Afterword

Notes

References
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 160 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509537860
ISBN-10: 1509537864
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Das, Veena
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Maße: 138 x 214 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Veena Das
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.02.2022
Gewicht: 0,274 kg
Artikel-ID: 118820378
Über den Autor
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Catastrophic Event: Enduring Inordinate Knowledge

Chapter 3: The Dispersed Body of the Police and Fictions of the Law

Chapter 4: Detecting the Human: Under Which Skies Do We Theorize?

Chapter 5: Afterword

Notes

References
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 160 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509537860
ISBN-10: 1509537864
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Das, Veena
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Maße: 138 x 214 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Veena Das
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.02.2022
Gewicht: 0,274 kg
Artikel-ID: 118820378
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