03092nam a2200361Ia 4500 pucpr 20260305111726.0 140915s2013 enk b 001 0 eng d 2012289834 9781844679829 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda eng CARIBET JZ1318 F87 2013 Arjun Appadurai 197201 The Future as Cultural Fact : essays on the global condition. / Arjun Appadurai. txt 1st ed. London : New York : Verso Books Creation , 2013. viii, 328 p. 24 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Index Bibliography Contents : Acknowledgements vii -- Introduction 1 -- PART 1 : MOVING GEOGRAPHIES -- 1 Commodities and the Politics of Value 9 -- 2 How Histories Make Geographies : Circulation and Context in a Global Perspective 61 -- 3 The Morality of Refusal 71 -- 4 The Offending Part : Sacrifice and Ethnocide in the Era of Globalization 85 -- 5 In My Father ' s Nation : Reflections on Biography , Memory , Family 101 -- PART 2 : THE VIEW FROM MUMBAI -- 6 Housing and Hope 115 -- 7 Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing : Notes on Millennial Mumbai 131 -- 8 Deep Democracy : Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics 153 -- 9 The Capacity to Aspire : Culture and the Terms of Recognition 179 -- 10 Cosmopolitanism from Below : Some Ethical Lessons from the Slums of Mumbai 197 -- PART 3 : MAKING THE FUTURE -- 11 The Spirit of Weber 217 -- 12 The Ghost in the Financial Machine 233 -- 13 The Social Life of Design 253 -- 14 Research as a Human Right 269 -- 15 The Future as Cultural Fact 285 -- Bibliography 301 -- Index 317 -- This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, 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 firsthand 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 -- Mumbai (India) Social conditions 21st century 302941 Poor India Mumbai Social conditions 296640 Globalization 295704 Economic aspects Globalization India 295704 Appadurai, Arjun, 1949- 46819 lcc 6 JZ1318 General F87 2013 245557 245557 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2014-09-10 amazon 16.48 527615 0 General JZ1318 F87 2013 91000000041269 2016-05-27 00:00:00 1 26.48 0000-00-00 6