Alter-Politics
Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination
$73.61
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2015
Summary
A provocative look at the future of the politics of transformation as an alternative to oppositional politics- ‘another world is possible’.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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522867381 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522867383 |
| Author: | Ghassan Hage |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2015 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 212mm x 136mm x 14mm |
You Can Find This Book In
About The Author
Ghassan Hage
Ghassan Hage is professor of anthropology and social theory at the University of Melbourne. He has held many international visiting professorships including at Harvard, at The Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, The University of Copenhagen and The American University of Beirut. He works in the areas of comparative nationalism, racism and multiculturalism. He is the author of many publications in this domain; most known among them is White Nation- Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society (Routledge 2000). He also works in social theory with a particular interest in the work of Pierre Bourdieu.
Returns
This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.