The Future as Cultural Fact Essays on the Global Condition
The Future as Cultural Fact Essays on the Global Condition
- ISBN 13:
9781844679829
- ISBN 10:
1844679829
- Edition: 00
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 03/12/2013
- Publisher: VERSO
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Summary
This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large (1996), is the product of ten years' research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai takes a broad analytical look at the genealogies of the present era of globalization through essays on violence, commodification, nationalism, terror and materiality. Alongside a discussion of these wider debates, Appadurai situates India at the heart of his work, offering writing based on first-hand research among urban slum-dwellers in Mumbai, in which he examines their struggle to achieve equity, recognition and self-governance in conditions of extreme inequality. Finally, in his work on design, planning, finance and poverty, Appadurai embraces the politics of hope and lays the foundations for a revitalized, and urgent, anthropology of the future.