Waiting
$73.70
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2009
Summary
This compelling collection of essays suggests that this experience is among the essential conditions that make us human and connect us to others.In this rich and insightful collection of essays, leading anthropologist Ghassan Hage brings together academics across political science, philosophy, anthropology and sociology for an examination into the experience of waiting.What is it to wait? What do we wait for? And how is waiting connected to the social worlds in which we live? From Beckett’s d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522856934 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522856934 |
| Author: | Ghassan Hage |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2009 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 134mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Academic Monographs |
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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.
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