Description
| Product ID: | 9780522867381 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | AU |
| Title: | Alter-Politics |
| Subtitle: | Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination |
| Authors: | Author: Ghassan Hage |
| Page Count: | 232 |
| Subjects: | Social and ethical issues, Social issues & processes, Social and cultural anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
| Description: | 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Academic Monographs |
| Publisher Name: | Melbourne University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-02-02 |
